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Origins of European Printmaking
The first comprehensive history of late medieval printmaking, which transformed image production and led to profound changes in Western culture
Eye on Europe
An intriguing and vibrant study of an innovative and lesser-known facet of contemporart art. Identifies significant strategies exploited by European artists to extend their aesthetic vision within the mediums of prints, books and multiples. Exploring commercial techniques, confrontational approaches and language and the expressionist impulse. Showcases the creativity being channelled into printed art by todays generation.
The Plains of Mars
Presents European war prints, dated 1500 to 1825, from the collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation.
Cheap Print and the People
In every country across Europe, at some point or other during the last five hundred years, cheap printed materials were the staple diet of ordinary people, providing a rich array of entertainment, education, and information. They came in various forms, but were usually variations on the theme of single sheets or simple booklets, and they were carried far and wide in pedlars’ packs and sold in the streets, at fairs and markets and wherever crowds gathered, as well as in backstreet shops. Their content was as broad as can be imagined: news and scandal, crimes and last-dying confessions of murderers, divinations, instructional works, wonder stories, miracles, folktales and legends, love stori...
China on Paper
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007 to Feb. 10, 2008.
Prints & Drawings
Drawn from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this new book reproduces 87 key works by 27 artists that represent a broad panorama of the development of the graphic arts in Europe from the Renaissance to the dawn of the 20th century. Entries on each of the works provide intimate glimpses into the creativity of some of the greatest artists of the times such as Dürer (Melencolia I, 1514); Rembrandt (Three trees, 1643); Watteau (Study of three male figures, c171314); Fragonard (Rinaldo in the gardens of Armida, c1761/64) and Gericault (The boxers, 1818).
"Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe, c. 1500?750 "
Prints and drawings have been keenly collected in Europe since at least the early sixteenth century. Relatively modest in price, they offered artists, amateurs and collectors of a systematic turn of mind the opportunity to put together holdings with a wide representation of different hands, schools and types of subject. Prints and drawings are traditionally treated separately, but their collecting is shown here to raise many interrelated issues. Employing a wide range of methodologies, the essays in this volume offer a number of innovative investigations into the collecting, perception, classication and display of works on paper.
