The early modern painter-etcher
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The early modern painter-etcher
Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006
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Catalog of an exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Apr. 14-June 11, 2006; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, July 1-Aug. 19, 2006; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Sept. 2-Oct. 28, 2006
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-185) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For half a century after its introduction in Europe, printmaking remained the province of a specially trained group of professionals. What changed this situation was the invention of etching, which allowed for print designs to be drawn directly onto a plate so that any competent draftsman could try his hand at it. Many artists did, and as a result, we now have a wide-ranging corpus of major Renaissance and Baroque graphics made by artists who, though famous in other fields, were novices in the print medium.
Featuring essays by Michael Cole, Larry Silver, Susan Dackerman, Graham Larkin, and exhibit co-curator Madeleine Viljoen, The Early Modern Painter-Etcher spans three centuries, roughly from the time of Durer to that of Goya, and looks at works executed by some seventy painters for whom printmaking was primarily an experimental field. The book accompanies an exhibition that opened in April 2006 at the University of Pennsylvania and will travel to the Ringling Museum of Art and to the Smith College Museum of Art.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael Cole
1. Fluid Boundaries: Formations of the Painter-Etcher
Michael Cole and Larry Silver
2. Durer's Etchings: Printed Drawings?
Susan Dackerman
3. Drawing and Etching in Early Modern Europe
Madeleine Viljoen
4. The Unfinished Eighteenth Century
Graham Larkin
Catalogue
Bibliography
Index
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