The print in the western world: an introductory history

Abstract

More than 700 illustrations, forty-nine of them in color, show the evolution of the relief, intaglio, planographic, and stencil processes through the centuries. Giving detailed treatment to the work of five master printmakers - Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, and Jasper Johns - the book also discusses in depth numerous other artists such as Martin Schongauer, Andrea Mantegna, Hendrik Goltzius, Jacques Callot, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, William Hogarth, Honoré Daumier, Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Ernst, and Andy Warhol. Although its primary focus is the fine art original print, The Print in the Western World also addresses in detail the reproductive tradition in printmaking that reached its peak in the eighteenth century and touches on book illustrations, posters, political satires, and vernacular print such as chromolithographs.

Contents

Ch. 1. Early relief and intaglio techniques: Northern printmakers before Dürer -- Ch. 2. Dürer and other sixteenth-century Northern artists -- Ch. 3. Italian Renaissance prints -- Ch. 4. Etching in the seventeenth century -- Ch. 5. Reproductive printmaking and related developments from the later sixteenth through the eighteenth century -- Ch. 6. Original etching and engraving in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Ch. 7. The print and socio-political reform: Hogarth and his heirs and Goya -- Ch. 8. Lithography in the nineteenth century -- Ch. 9. The nineteenth century: the etching revival and new technical approaches -- Ch. 10. The German expressionists and related artists -- Ch. 11. Picasso and other European printmakers to the 1940s -- Ch. 12. American and Mexican printmaking to the mid-1940s -- Ch. 13. Printmaking in Europe and America after World War II -- Selected bibliography of print reference catalogs.