Binding: Paperback
Description: A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print In process and technique printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an image between surfaces under pressure followed by release. Contact reveals how the physical properties of print have their own poetics and politics and provides a new framework for understanding the intelligence and continuing relevance of printmaking today. The seemingly simple physics of printmaking brings with it an array of metamorphoses that give expression to many of the social and conceptual concerns at the heart of modern and contemporary art. Exploring transformations such as reversal separation and interference Jennifer Roberts explores these dynamics in the work of Christiane Baumgartner David Hammons Edgar Heap of Birds Jasper Johns Corita Kent Glenn Ligon Julie Mehretu Robert Rauschenberg and many other leading artists who work at the edge of the medium and beyond. Focusing on the material and spatial transformations of the printmaking process rather than its reproducibility this beautifully illustrated book explores the connections between print painting and sculpture but also between the fine arts industrial arts decorative arts and domestic arts. Throughout Roberts asks what artists are learning from print and what we in turn can learn from them. Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts National Gallery of Art Washington
Title: Contact: Art And The Pull Of Print
Author(s): Roberts Jennifer L.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691255859
Pages: 232 Pages, 117 Color + 14 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 5/14/2024
Series: Bollingen Series
Category: Art Techniques & Principles