The Unfinished Print - Couverture rigide

Parshall, Peter; Sell, Stacey; Brodie, Judith

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0853318204 ISBN 13 : 9780853318200

Editeur : Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

When does a work of art achieve aesthetic resolution? Artists, collectors, and theorists since the Renaissance have been intrigued by this question in their attempt to understand the artistic endeavour. Prints claim a special place in this history. The Unfinished Print investigates the changing taste for prints that reveal the traces of their making, a subject never before considered across its full historical sweep, from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century. An artist working on a print will usually take 'proof impressions' to check the progress of the plate, allowing us to trace the rethinking that attends the making of any work of art. Yet, unlike other media, proofs establish an exact record of discrete stages in the history of an image. Amplified by experiments with variant states and impressions, printmakers generated a creative interest in process and stages of completion, a phenomenon with complex implications for the history of art. Locating the issue of finish in printmaking within a broad intellectual and cultural context, this book examines the evolving concern with artistic process and aesthetic self-sufficiency in the work of Rembrandt, the rococo taste for proof states in the wake of Watteau, the fractured architectural visions of Piranesi, the romantic fascination with the artistic fragment, and the complex investigations of technical experiment that dominated printmaking in late-nineteenth century Paris.

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À propos de l'auteur

Peter Parshall is Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Stacey Sell is Assistant Curator of Old Master Drawings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Judith Brody is Associate Curator of Old Master Drawings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0853318204
• ISBN 13: 9780853318200
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible