A Graphic Muse: Prints by Contemporary American Women - Softcover

Field, Richard S.; Fine, Ruth E.; Mount Holyoke College. Art Museum

9780933920804: A Graphic Muse: Prints by Contemporary American Women

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933920806 ISBN 13: 9780933920804

Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr, 1989

Surveys modern print making, looks at abstracts, still lifes and landscapes by twenty-four women artists, and provides a profile of each print maker

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The catalogue of an exhibition at Mount Holyoke College, this volume documents the vital and original contributions that American women artists have brought to contemporary printmaking. The neon bars and menacing stairwells of Jane Dickson's aquatints convey the loneliness of big-city living as powerfully as Edward Hopper's urban landscapes. They contrast with Yvonne Jacquette's stunning, meticulous nighttime vistas of Manhattan. Many of the artists here employ innovative techniques. For example, Nancy Graves combines etching, pastel, aquatint and drypoint in a single layered print, so the colors become autonomous, whirling-dervish gestures. Helen Frankenthaler transforms traditional Japanese woodcut into a painterly medium. Louisa Chase's symbolic landscapes of torsos, hands and feet could not be less similar to Susan Shatter's soaring perspectives of the rocky Maine coast, yet both attest to the viability of the print medium.
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