Contact art and the pull of print Jennifer L. Roberts

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Jennifer L., 1969- author.

Contributor:

Project Muse, distributor.

Series:

Bollingen series 70

A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts 2021

Book collections on Project MUSE

A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts Bollingen series XXXV:70

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Series v.70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prints--Technique.

Prints.

printmaking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. Project MUSE 2024

Place of Publication:

Princeton Princeton University Press [2024]

Summary:

A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print: In process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an image between surfaces, under pressure, followed by release. Contact reveals how the physical properties of print have their own poetics and politics and provides a new framework for understanding the intelligence and continuing relevance of printmaking today. The seemingly simple physics of printmaking brings with it an array of metamorphoses that give expression to many of the social and conceptual concerns at the heart of modern and contemporary art. Exploring transformations such as reversal, separation, and interference, Jennifer Roberts explores these dynamics in the work of Christiane Baumgartner, David Hammons, Edgar Heap of Birds, Jasper Johns, Corita Kent, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Robert Rauschenberg, and many other leading artists who work at the edge of the medium and beyond. Focusing on the material and spatial transformations of the printmaking process rather than its reproducibility, this beautifully illustrated book explores the connections between print, painting, and sculpture, but also between the fine arts, industrial arts, decorative arts, and domestic arts. Throughout, Roberts asks what artists are learning from print, and what we, in turn, can learn from them

Contents:

1. Pressure

2. Reversal

3.Separation

4. Strain

5. Interference

6. Alienation

Notes:

Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Print version Roberts, Jennifer L. Contact: Art and the Pull of Print

ISBN:

9780691255866

0691255865

OCLC:

1433004057