Printing colour 1400-1700 : history, techniques, functions and receptions / edited by Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stijnman, Ad, editor.

Savage, Elizabeth (Lauren Elizabeth), editor.

Series:

Library of the written word ; 41.

Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 32.

Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 41

The handpress world ; VOLUME 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color prints, European.

Art and society--Europe--History.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Printing Colour 1400–1700 , Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage offer the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking before 1700 (when most such histories begin), creating a new, interdisciplinary paradigm for the history of graphic art. It unveils a corpus of thousands of individual colour prints from across early modern Europe, proposing art historical, bibliographical, technical and scientific contexts for understanding them and their markets. The twenty-three contributions represent the state of research in this still-emerging field. From the first known attempts in the West until the invention of the approach we still use today (blue-red-yellow-black/‘key’, now CMYK), it demonstrates that colour prints were not rare outliers, but essential components of many early modern book, print and visual cultures.

Contents:

An Introduction to Colour in Printmaking 1400-1700

The Advent of Colour Printing, c.1400-1500

The Renaissance in Colour, c.1476-1600

Vivid Mannerism, c.1588-1650

Product Innovation and Commercial Enterprise, c.1620 -1700.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-29011-7

OCLC:

918997297

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004290112 DOI