Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Kunst - Grafik, Druck, Note: 2,0, Katholische Universitat Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Veranstaltung: Einfuhrung in die Druckgraphik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In "Der deutsche Kupferstich und Albrecht Durer" wird kompakt ein zusammenfassender Uberblick uber Geschichte, Entwicklung und Technik des Kupferstiches gegeben, anschliessend Albrecht Durers Rolle als Kupferstecher definiert und abschliessend dessen Meisterstich "Ritter, Tod und Teufel" interpretierend betrachte

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1998 im Fachbereich Kunst - Grafik, Druck, Note: 2,0, Universitat Karlsruhe (TH) (Institut fur Kunstgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Weiterfuhrendes Seminar: George Grosz, 10 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: George Grosz wurde am 26. Juli 1893 als Georg Ehrenfried Gross in Berlin geboren und ist der kritischste Zeichner Deutschlands in der Zeit von Beginn des ersten Weltkrieges bis zum Ausbruch des zweiten Weltkrieges. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt kurz die politische Situation wahrend der Vorkriegs- und Kriegsjahre des ersten Weltkrieges und die kunstlerische Entwicklung von Georg Grosz anhand seines Fruhwerks in dieser Zeit. Vorwiegend wird aus seine Zeichnungen eingegangen, weil sie als Basis aller druckgraphischen Werke und Gemalde dienen. Sie sind die Quelle, aus der er schopft, und aus der Zeit bis 1918 sind 41 erfasst. Wenn auch in seinem Fruhwerk keine politische Haltung formuliert ist, so zeigt doch seine fruhe Beschaftigung mit dem Thema Mord seine Sensibilitat fur zukunftige Ereignisse. Der Massenmord an der Bevolkerung ist eine Erfahrung, die es vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg in diesen Ausmassen nicht gegeben hat. Vorrangig wird anhand dieses Sujets sein Fruhwerk erlautert, da sein Reifeprozess an diesen Werken am deutlichsten erkennbar ist. Der Endpunkt der Betrachtung seines Fruhwerks ist das Jahr 1

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Kunst - Grafik, Druck, Note: 1-2, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn (Kunsthistorisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Proseminar: Das druckgraphische Werk Albrecht Durers, 10 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Melencolia I" gehort neben Der grosse Reiter" und Hieronymus im Gehaus" zu den drei Meisterstichen Albrecht Durers, die allesamt in den Jahren 1513 und 1514 entstanden sind. Kein anderes Werk hat in der kunsthistorischen Forschung so viele Anschauungen, Deutungen und kontroverse Interpretationen erfahren, wie dieser Kupferstich. Durer gelang es, 1514 ein Meisterwerk zu schaffen, dessen einzelne Bildelemente sondiert zwar interpretierbar sind, das sich jedoch einer zusammenhangenden, vollendeten Bildinterpretation entzieht. Unzahlige Kunsthistoriker versuchten dieses Werk Durers zu analysieren, doch keiner von ihnen kam zu einer vollstandigen und eindeutigen ikonologischen Analyse. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, eine Darstellung der Temperamentenlehre bis zur Zeit Durers zu liefern, insbesondere die Entwicklung des Melancholikers. Des Weiteren werde ich eine Interpretation der einzelnen Bildelemente, beziehungsweise des ganzen Stiches vornehmen, die sich auf dieses Temperament bezieht

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Kunst - Grafik, Druck, Note: 2,0, Universitat Luneburg (Institut fur Kunst und Kunstdidaktik), 6 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Kurzer Uberblick uber die elementaren Drucktechniken., Abstract: Mit der Erfindung des Bilddruckes war gegen Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts eine neue Ara der Menschheitsgeschichte angebrochen, deren Bedeutung hochstens mit jener der Erfindung des Buchdruckes ... durch Johannes Gutenberg um 1455 zu vergleichen ist. ... Das Wesen der Kunst des Bilddruckes liegt in der nur ihm eigenen Ausdrucksmoglichkeiten der graphischen Verfahren. Jeder Umgang mit Holz und mit Schneidemessern, mit Kupferplatten und Lithosteinen, mit Schablonen, Sieben, lichtempfindlichen Schichten, mit Nadeln, Kreiden, Sauren und Tuschen besitzt seine eigene Charakteristik und jedes Entstehen eines Werkes seine eigene Faszination, die dem Ergebnis anhaftet: Sei dies nun bei den Hochdrucken die Kraft ihrer geschnittenen Schwunge, die strenge Schonheit des Holzes selbst, seien es in den Tiefdrucken die edlen Linienzuge des reinen Strichs oder die freie Lebhaftigkeit und Intensitat der Radierung, das tiefe Dunkel und die subtilen Reize der Aquatinta ebenso wie das differenzierte Schwarzweiss mit all den zeichnerischen und flachigen Werten der Lithographie oder schliesslich die kaum ausschopfbaren Skalen der Farbtechniken. Die Kunst des Druckens steht anderen Moglichkeiten kunstlerischen Ausdrucks in nichts nach." Dieses Zitat macht deutlich, dass die Druckgraphik eine Fulle von Moglichkeiten bietet. Im Folgenden werde ich den Linol- und Holzschnitt (Hochdruck), die Strichatzung (Tiefdruck) sowie die Monotypie naher beschrieben, indem ich zunachst jeweils kurz auf das ubergeordnete Verfahren eingehe. Anschliessend wird ich die einzelnen Drucktechniken genauer erklaren. Dazu werde ich zu verwendende Materialien nennen und je beschreiben, wie man von der Vorlage zum Druck gelangt. Auch werde ich

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Kunst - Grafik, Druck, Note: 1,0, Philipps-Universitat Marburg (Kunstgeschichtliches Institut), 77 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Kommentar des Gutachters: Sehr kluge Analyse des Gegenstandes, die den Stand der Forschung um einige Fragestellungen erweitert. Hervorragende Bildbeschreibungen., Abstract: Heute beschreiben Historiker ihn als die Urkatastrophe des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Burgdorff u. Wiegrefe). Der Erste Weltkrieg sprengte alle bisher gultigen Kategorien und wurde zum Paradigma der Gewalterfahrung. Neueste Waffentechniken forderten die maximale Zerstorung. Der zermurbende Stellungs- und Grabenkrieg, der vor allem die Westfront bestimmte, verwustete ganze Landstriche und forderte insgesamt uber 3 Millionen tote Soldaten auf allen Seiten. Otto Dix, Kunstler und Soldat, kehrte nach vier Jahren Kriegsdienst an der Front unversehrt zuruck. Das Erleben des Krieges pragte fortan sein kunstlerisches Schaffen. Diese Arbeit widmet sich seinem 1924 veroffentlichten Radierzyklus "Der Krieg," in dem er das Sterben und Vegetieren der Soldaten in den Schutzengraben des Ersten Weltkrieges schilderte. Es wird die ideologisch gefuhrte Debatte dargestellt, die sich seit der Veroffentlichung 1924 um die Radierungen entspann und der Bogen bis zum gegenwartige Stand der Forschung gespannt. Die Analyse legt u.a. die kunstlerischen Strategien dar, die Dix entwickelte, um dem Betrachter glaubhaft zu vermitteln, hier die Wirklichkeit, wie er sie erfahren hatte, zu schildern. So integrierte Dix beispielsweise in seine Bildkompositionen charakteristische Asthetiken von Reportagefotografien, um den Authentizitateindruck des Dargestellten zu verstarken. Aber auch der Vergleich mit zeitgenossischer Kriegsliteratur spielt in diesem Zusammenhang eine Rolle. Letztlich wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern die 50 Radierungen des Zyklus eine Reflexion und Visualisierung der kriegsbedingten Traumatisierung des

The first major overview of the works and career of Leopoldo Mendez-one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century and a contemporary and countryman of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and Jose Guadalupe Posada-contains over 150 illustrations Winner, A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Leopoldo Mendez (1902-1969) was one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century, as well as one of Mexico's most accomplished artists. A politically motivated artist who strongly opposed injustice, fascism, and war, Mendez helped form and actively participated in significant political and artistic groups, including the Estridentistas in the 1920s and the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (LEAR) and the Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) in the 1930s. To champion Mexican art and artists, Mendez also founded and directed the Fondo Editorial de la Plastica Mexicana, a highly respected art book publishing company. Leopoldo Mendez is the first book-length work in English on this major Mexican artist. Profusely illustrated with over one hundred and fifty images, it examines the whole sweep of Mendez's artistic career. Deborah Caplow situates Mendez within both Mexican and international art of the twentieth century, tracing the lines of connection and influence between Mendez and such contemporaries as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada. Caplow focuses on the period in the 1930s when Mendez and his fellow artists in LEAR and TGP played a key role in the development of a Mexican political art movement and a modern Mexican cultural identity. She also describes how Mendez created a body of powerful anti-Fascist images before and during World War II and subsequently collaborated with artists from Mexico and around the world on political printmaking, in addition to publishing books and creating prints for films by the eminent Mexican cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa.

This work offers buyers, sellers, and collectors an easy-to-use, one-volume source of information for these bird and quadruped prints of John James Audubon. It contains obscure references, where the author, Bill Steiner, has surveyed the contemporary market-place. Addressing one of the more complex aspects of print collection, the text clarifies the task of distinguishing the octavio prints of the successive editions of Audubon's ""Birds of America"" (1840-1871) and ""Quadrupeds of North America (1849-1870). It describes the publication histories of each edition since the first, offers information about printers, engravers, and subscribers, and provides practical information on price histories, accessibility, and preservation.

The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and restaurants were established to provide sustenance and lodging to weary travelers. In 1835, renowned woodblock print artist Keisai Eisen was commissioned to create a series of works to chart the Kisokaido journey. After producing 24 prints, Eisen was replaced by Utagawa Hiroshige, who completed the series of 70 prints in 1838. Both Eisen and Hiroshige were master print practitioners. In The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido, we find the artists' distinct styles as much as their shared expertise. From the busy starting post of Nihonbashi to the castle town of Iwamurata, Eisen opts for a more muted palette but excels in figuration, particularly of glamorous women, and relishes snapshots of activity along the route, from shoeing a horse to winnowing rice. Hiroshige demonstrates his mastery of landscape with grandiose and evocative scenes, whether it's the peaceful banks of the Ota River, the forbidding Wada Pass, or a moonlit ascent between Yawata and Mochizuki. Taken as a whole, The Sixty-Nine Stations collection represents not only a masterpiece of woodblock practice, including bold compositions and an experimental use of color, but also a charming tapestry of 19th-century Japan, long before the specter of industrialization. This TASCHEN XXL edition revives the series with due scale and splendor. Sourced from the only-known set of a near-complete run of the first edition of the series, this legendary publication is reproduced in optimum quality, bound in the Japanese tradition and with uncut paper. A perfect companion piece to TASCHEN's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, it is at once a visual delight and a major artifact from the bygone era of Imperial Japan.

Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, ‘death and the maiden’ and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body. Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from—and contributed to—the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural ‘feminine defect,’ a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung’s iconic witchcraft imagery, this book is essential reading for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.

Max Liebermann (1847-1935)-a co-founder of the Berlin Secession and President of the Akademie der Kunste for many years-was one of the most important artists of his generation. In addition to his impressive painting oeuvre, Liebermann's graphic prints also assume an important role: over 600 motifs as etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts are found today in museum and private collections around the world. This catalogue provides an introduction to Liebermann's graphic prints based on selected works from the collection of the Max Liebermann Society Berlin. It also presents common printmaking techniques and provides a detailed examination of the development of the graphic prints by the most signifi cant representative of Impressionism. The focus is thus on the history of the collecting and exhibiting of his print graphic works as well as the research on these works.

Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius as a teller of tales. Here, several virtually unknown etchings, collected by the Feddersen family and now preserved for the ages at the University of Notre Dame, are made widely available in a lavishly illustrated volume. Building on the contributions of earlier Rembrandt scholars, noted art historian Charles M. Rosenberg illuminates each of the 70 religious prints through detailed background information on the artist's career as well as the historical, religious, and artistic impulses informing their creation. Readers will enjoy an impression of the earliest work, The Circumcision (1625-26); the famous Hundred Guilder Print; the enigmatic eighth state of Christ Presented to the People; one of a handful of examples of the very rare final posthumous state of The Three Crosses; and an impression and counterproof of The Triumph of Mordecai. From the joyous epiphany of the coming of the Messiah to the anguish of the betrayal of a father (Jacob) by his children, from choirs of angels waiting to receive the Virgin into heaven to the dog who defecates in the road by an ancient inn (The Good Samaritan), Rembrandt's etchings offer a window into the nature of faith, aspiration, and human experience, ranging from the ecstatically divine to the worldly and mundane. Ultimately, these prints- modest, intimate, fragile objects-are great works of art which, like all masterpieces, reward us with fresh insights and discoveries at each new encounter.

From the beginning of the exciting century that saw a small nation expand into a mighty world power, the famous lithographic firm of Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives produced over 7,000 prints, capturing scenes of American life in vivid detail. Currier & Ives prints were each coloured individually, by hand, and collectors have prized their skilled craftsmanship and keen sense of composition for generations. This timeless collection, complete with more than three hundred illustrations in full colour and a masterful text by historian Walton Rawls, captures a beloved piece of Americana. With festive holiday scenes, watershed historical moments, and idyllic depictions of the American countryside, this book will hold perennial appeal for lovers of history, art, and a classic take on the American experience.

George Baxter (1804-1867) was a pioneer in advancing the art of colour printing. A perfectionist, Baxter not only engraved but also examined the prints as they were produced, often providing touch-ups by hand. Baxter's process was, in the end, uneconomical, and he died bankrupt, but no one did more to bring vivid artworks within financial reach of every household, or leave a more colourful legacy for generations of admiring collectors of Victoriana. His oil-coloured prints have given viewers pleasure since they began appearing in the 1830s. Thanks to Donald and Barbara Cameron's generous donation of their Baxter collection in 2010, the Bruce Peel Special Collections & Archives was able to mount a remarkable exhibition.

Prints changed the history of art, even as that history was first being written. In this study, Sharon Gregory argues that this reality was not lost on Vasari; she shows that, contrary to common opinion, prints thoroughly pervade Vasari's history of art, just as they pervade his own career as an artist. This volume examines Giorgio Vasari's interest, as an art historian and as an artist, in engravings and woodblock prints, shedding new light not only on aspects of Vasari's career, but also on aspects of sixteenth-century artistic culture and artistic practice. It is the first book to study his interest in prints from this dual perspective. Investigating how prints were themselves more often interpretive than strictly reproductive, Gregory challenges the long-held view that Vasari's reliance on prints led to errors in his interpretation of major monuments. She demonstrates how, like Raphael and later artists, Vasari used engravings after his designs as a form of advertisement through which he hoped to increase his fame and attract influential patrons. She also explores how contributing illustrations for books by his scholarly friends, Vasari participated in the contemporary exchange of intellectual ideas and concerns shared by Renaissance humanists and artists.

The Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theatrical performances. Urbanites actively engaged with and enjoyed this visual culture, which was largely driven by the subjective desire for the empty promises of modernity--promises comprised of such abstract and fleeting concepts as new, exciting, and fashionable. Detailing and analyzing the trajectories of development of various visual representations, Laikwan Pang emphasizes their interactions. In doing so, she demonstrates that visual modernity was not only a combination of independent cultural phenomena, but also a partially coherent sociocultural discourse whose influences were seen in different and collective parts of the culture. The work begins with an overall historical account and theorization of a new lithographic pictorial culture developing at the end of the nineteenth century and an examination of modernity's obsession with the investigation of the real. Subsequent chapters treat the fascination with the image of the female body in the new visual culture; entertainment venues in which this culture unfolded and was performed; how urbanites came to terms with and interacted with the new reality; and the production and reception of images, the dynamics between these two being a theme explored throughout the book. Modernity, as the author shows, can be seen as spectacle. At the same time, she demonstrates that, although the excessiveness of this spectaclecaptivated the modern subject, it did not completely overwhelm or immobilize those who engaged with it. After all, she argues, they participated in and performed with this ephemeral visual culture in an attempt to come to terms with their own new, modern self.

G. B. Piranesi is one of the most inventive artists of the eighteenth century. The Carceri, or Prisons, are a set of etchings believed by many to be Piranesi's most original work. The extraordinary evocative power of the Carceri has fascinated many writers. Some have interpreted the Carceri as dreams, as nightmares, as disturbing allegories of human life. In this book, mostly through an analysis of the Latin quotations contained in the etchings, it is argued that Piranesi grants a metaphorical meaning to the Carceri in order to imprison those he saw as obstructing the Arts and threatening his own freedom. Italian text. Silvia Gavuzzo-Stewart graduated from the University of Rome La Sapienza. She has taught Italian language and literature at the Universities of London and Reading. In Reading she was in charge of teaching history of art in the Department of Italian Studies. She is now an Honorary Fellow of Reading University.

"Printing the Grand Manner" illuminates an extraordinary moment in the intertwined history of painting and printmaking in Europe. The brilliant age of Louis XIV saw the creation of a group of unusually large prints--some of which measure a fantastic five feet by three feet when assembled--that reproduced works by the French king's remarkably inventive court painter, designer, and arts administrator, Charles Le Brun (1619-1690).
The two essays and the catalogue entries in this volume focus on eleven of these monumental reproductive engravings. The authors not only relate the fascinating story of the production of these prints but also explore their role in the glorification of Louis XIV and in forming critical opinion of Le Brun as an artist and as an advocate of history painting in the Grand Manner.
This volume accompanies the exhibition "Printing the Grand Manner: Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV" held at the Getty Research Institute from May 18 to October 17, 2010.

Since the 1940s, printmaker Warrington Colescott has trained his brilliant artistic eye on the fashions and foibles of human behavior. A satirist in the tradition of William Hogarth, Francisco Goya, Honore Daumier, and George Grosz, Colescott utilizes his sharp wit and vivid imagination to interpret contemporary and historical events, from the personal to the public, the local to the international. He is especially noted for his exceptional command of complex printmaking techniques and for his innovative approach to intaglio printing.
"The Prints of Warrington Colescott: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1948-2008" is the first fully illustrated catalogue to document Colescott's extensive and varied graphic career. Author and curator Mary Weaver Chapin has worked closely with Colescott, interviewed him at length, and had unique access to his private papers and archives. She documents his personal and artistic life in a detailed biographic sketch, and her extensive essay "Research Printmaker and Mad-Dog Attack Artist" examines the evolution of his printmaking career, focusing on his technique, iconography, and his place in American printmaking. The catalogue documents and depicts all 359 of Colescott's editioned prints, providing title, date, media, dimensions, and selected exhibition history and collections for each print, along with comments and anecdotes by Chapin and Colescott.
Published in collaboration with the Milwaukee Art Museum
- The exhibition "Warrington Colescott: Cabaret, Comedy & Satire" will open at the Milwaukee Art Museum in June 2010. Visit www.mam.org Finalist, Arts Book, Midwest Book Awards

The Print in the Western World is a comprehensive history of the print from its origins in the fifteenth through the late twentieth century. A source of inspiration to many great painters, such as Titian, Rembrandt, and Manet, printmaking has established its own criteria of aesthetic excellence as well as its own expressive language, both of which are explored here. Scholars and print collectors will find in this well-written and generously illustrated book a valuable reference, students a lucid survey, and art lovers an informative introduction to the history of the print in Europe and America. 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 Durer, 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, Honore Daumier, Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, Kathe 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 prints such as chromolithographs. Author Linda C. Hults emphasizes the meaning and historical context of prints, the consequences of the print's accessibility to many strata of society, and the relationship among artist, context, subject matter, and technique. The volume includes a glossary of basic printmaking terms, as well as full bibliographies at the end of each chapter, giving readers access to a wide range of recent scholarship on prints.

This original and relevant book investigates the relationship between intellectual property and the visual arts in France from the 16th century to the French Revolution. It charts the early history of privilege legislation (today's copyright and patent) for books and inventions, and the translation of its legal terms by and for the image. Those terms are explored in their force of law and in relation to artistic discourse and creative practice in the early modern period. The consequences of commercially motivated law for art and its definitions, specifically its eventual separation from industry, are important aspects of the story. The artists who were caught up in disputes about intellectual property ranged from the officers of the Academy down to the lowest hacks of Grub Street. Lessons from this book may still apply in the 21st century; with the advent of inexpensive methods of reproduction, multiplication, and dissemination via digital channels, questions of intellectual property and the visual arts become important once more.