The Print Before Photography; An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550 - 1820
Language: English
Published by BM Press, 2016
- Hardcover
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- Title
- The Print Before Photography; An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550 - 1820
- Author
- Griffiths, Antony
- Publisher
- BM Press
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0714126950
- ISBN 13
- 9780714126951
Winner of the Apollo Magazine 2016 "Book of the Year" award.
A landmark publication—beautifully illustrated with over 300 prints from the British Museum’s renowned collection—which traces the history of printmaking from its earliest days until the arrival of photography.
Copperplate printmaking; developed alongside Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type; was a huge business employing thousands of people; and dominating image production for nearly four centuries across the whole of Europe. Its techniques and influence remained very stable until the nineteenth century; when this world was displaced by new technologies; of which photography was by far the most important.
Print Before Photography examines the unrivaled importance of printmaking in its golden age; illustrated through the British Museum’s outstanding collection of prints. This unique and significant book is destined to be a leading reference in print scholarship; and will be of interest to anyone with an interest in this era of art history.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Print production – materials and techniques / printing capacity of copper plates / costs and profitability / lettering; language and text / censorship; privileges; taxation and promotion / copying / reprinting / colouring / single sheets; pairs; sets / book illustration / survival and loss of prints
Part 2: European print trade – brief history of period / participants / the printmaker / the painter; designer / publisher – finance and production and distribution / patronage / non-commercial printmaking / the printseller / marketing; advertising; subscriptions / the buyer / cheap prints; street trade and peddlars
Part 3: Use and understanding of the print – variety / display and storage / collecting / knowledge and literature / understanding of prints / hierarchy of print techniques
Coda – print in the 19th century – the arrival of photography
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