Perspectives on contemporary printmaking : critical writing since 1986 / edited by Ruth Pelzer-Montada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pelzer-Montada, Ruth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prints--Technique.

Prints.

Printmakers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This unique anthology presents thirty-two texts on contemporary prints and printmaking written from the mid-1980s to the present. The essays range from academic art history to popular art criticism and creative writing; taken together, they form a critical topography of printmaking today.The book's four sections provide: A genealogy of printmaking and print culture; A sample of debates on contemporary printmaking, beginning with Ruth Weisberg's influential 'The syntax of print' (1986); A range of critical terms and themes; Examples of some of the major spheres of print activity, such as production, collecting, dissemination, education and researchDrawing on a cast of distinguished scholars, artists and curators, the book makes available a selection of widely dispersed and difficult-to-find texts. This includes extracts from works not yet available in English, such as Die Welt als T-Shirt (1997) by Beat Wyss and La Ressemblance par contact (2008) by Georges Didi-Huberman. There are also contributions from scholar and book artist Johanna Drucker, mathematician and computer artist Frieder Nake, curators Daniel F. Herrmann, Gill Saunders and Mari Carmen Ramírez, and the editors of the award-winning website Printeresting.Featuring an overall introduction by the editor, as well as introductions to each of the sections, the anthology is aimed at an audience of international stakeholders in the field of contemporary prints, printmaking and print media, ranging from art students and practising artists to museum curators, critics, educationalists and scholars. It provides the basis for an expansion of the debate in the field and a starting point for further research.

Contents:

Part I: Genealogy

Fragments for an art history of media: electr(on)ic thinking (1997) / Beat Wyss

The technical gaze: the parallel world of photography (2003) / Ernst Rebel

Post-print culture? (2013) / Frances Robertson

Part II: Debates

The syntax of the print: in search of an aesthetic context (1986) / Ruth Weisberg

Sentences on printed art (1994) / Richard S. Field

The re-vision of printmaking(1999) / Kathryn Reeves

The shape of graphic art (2010) / Andrzrej Bednarczyk

The graphic unconscious or the how and why of a print triennial (2011) / Jose Roca

Print as other: the future is queer (2013) / Richard Harding

The what and the why of print (2016) / Barbara Balfour

Part III: Keywords

Coordinates of a history of the technical image 2003) / Ernst Rebel

The status of the reproduction (1988) / Susan Lambert

Benjamin's blindspot: aura and reproduction in the post-print age (2015) / Clare Humphries

Are all multiples the same? The problematic nature of the limited edition (2015) / K. E. Gover

Printing plates and pixel matrix: the mechanisation of memory (2010) / Frieder Nake

Opening up an anachronistic point of view (1997) / Georges Didi-Huberman

Untying the knot: memory and forgetting in contemporary print work (2013) / Deidre Brollo

Spirit duplication (2010) / Yara Flores

Three ways to use yellow (2014) / Catherine Brooks

On the manual (in the manual)

Part IV: The field

Edinburgh Printmakers and the notion of the workshop (2007) / Daniel F. Herrmann

Projects and portfolios: narrative and structure (1995) / Jeremy Lewison

Lasting impressions? A museum perspective on digital fine art printmaking (2009) / Gill Saunders

Print and the public sphere (2011) / Sheryl Conkelton

The work event: art in the distributed field and systems of production (2013) / Johanna Drucker

All the instruments agree (2010) / Eric Triantafillou

Stamping (molding) marks: the San Juan Triennial tracking the new century (2004) / Mari Carmen Ramírez

Chinese printmaking in the twenty-first century: new horizons and energies (2011) / Shang Hui

What is 'studio' in the post-disciplinary age? (2011) / Matthew Perkins

Making a place: art and a multi-modal, multi-disciplinary approach (2014) / Amanda Thomson

Failures, irritations and grief in printing: in search of Manly Banister, an excerpt from an unpublishable memoir (2014) / R. L. Tillman.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526125767

1526125765

OCLC:

1232850695