"With Admiral Perry's penetration of isolationist Japan in 1854, the current of Japanese trade flowed west again, bearing, among other orientalia, the colored woodcuts of Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige, and their contemporaries. Some of the most avid collectors of the Japanese prin…
Druckgrafik: Geschichte - Fachbegriffe
by Rebel, Ernst
fromReclams Universal-Bibliothek
This volume draws from the Museum of Modern Art's outstanding holdings of expressionist prints, enhanced by selected drawings, paintings and sculptures from the collection, to explore the importance of printmaking in German expressionism.
Introduction: Conformity -- Part 1. The city: Cuzco -- Cuzco's aesthetic of sameness -- Rethinking "Rubens" in the Andes -- Part 2. The cathedral: Mexico City -- Inventors in New Spain -- Metropolitan academicians -- Part 3. The viceroyalty: New Spain and Peru -- The transatlant…
The cultural milieu in the "Age of Goethe" of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers' patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-Eisenach. An important noblewoman and patron of the arts, Anna Amalia transformed …
"Tactile, retro, and idiosyncratic, hand-printed objects have an undeniable appeal, especially in a digital age. In recent years, the nearly obsolete craft of letterpress has been resurrected by artists and designers who have rescued cast-iron presses from basements and scrap ya…
Tactile, retro, and idiosyncratic, hand-printed objects have an undeniable appeal, especially in a digital age. In recent years, the nearly obsolete craft of letterpress has been resurrected by artists and designers who have rescued cast-iron presses from basements and scrap yar…
Introduction: White pebbles in the dark forest -- Savage marks: The scriptive techniques of early modern ethnography -- Making sense of smoke: Engraving and ornament in de Bry's America -- Flatness and protuberance: Reforming the image in Protestant print culture -- The art of s…