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

Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker, is known especially for his landscape prints. The last great figure of the popular ukiyo-e school of printmaking, he transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes. With Hokusai, Hiroshige dominated the popular art of Japan in the first half of the nineteenth century. He captured, in a poetic, gentle way that all could understand, the ordinary person's experience of the Japanese landscape, as well as the varied moods of memorable places at different times. His total output was immense, some 5400 prints in all. Ukiyo-e publishing was not a cultural institution subsidized by public funds, but rather a commercial business. During his lifetime, Hiroshige was well known and commercially successful. But the Japanese society did not take too much notice of him. His real reputation started with his discovery in Europe. This beautiful book, published on the occasion of a major exhibition in Rome, examines various aspects of Hiroshige's oeuvre and reproduces in color some two hundred of his prints. The comprehensive text examines his life and achievement as well as his masterwork, and explains the particular qualities that make Hiroshige such an essential artist.

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

Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as "calendar art" or "bazaar art," the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in advertisements, featuring deities and other religious themes as well as nationalist leaders, alluring women, movie stars, chubby babies, and landscapes. Calendar art appears in all manner of contexts in India: in chic elite living rooms, middle-class kitchens, urban slums, village huts; hung on walls, stuck on scooters and computers, propped up on machines, affixed to dashboards, tucked into wallets and lockets. In this beautifully illustrated book, Kajri Jain examines the power that calendar art wields in Indian mass culture, arguing that its meanings derive as much from the production and circulation of the images as from their visual features. Jain draws on interviews with artists, printers, publishers, and consumers as well as analyses of the prints themselves to trace the economies-of art, commerce, religion, and desire-within which calendar images and ideas about them are formulated. For Jain, an analysis of the bazaar, or vernacular commercial arena, is crucial to understanding not only the calendar art that circulates within the bazaar but also India's postcolonial modernity and the ways that its mass culture has developed in close connection with a religiously inflected nationalism. The bazaar is characterized by the coexistence of seemingly incompatible elements: bourgeois-liberal and neoliberal modernism on the one hand, and vernacular discourses and practices on the other. Jain argues that from the colonial era to the present, capitalist expansion has depended on the maintenance of these multiple coexisting realms: the sacred, the commercial, and the artistic; the official and the vernacular.

There is renewed interest among art photographers in a number of historic printing techniques because of the remarkable effects they produce. The reader will discover how to create beautifully tinted mono- and polychromatic gum and oil images using the author's version of this 19th century technique. Step-by-step illustrated instructions with directions for further experimentation provide a perfect source for learning this new, yet old, printing technique. Gumoil printing involves contact-printing a positive transparency onto gum-coated paper. Oil paint is then applied and rubbed into nongummed areas of the print. With bleach etching, mono- and polychromatic variations are possible. A chapter on digital printing combines the new and the historic, making this technique even more accessible for the art photographer.
Includes a new chapter on digital printing techniques Step by step instructions for using this techniqueEight page insert containing 10 beautiful color images

Maxfield Parrish was one of the rare artists whose work was immensely popular during his own lifetime. His brilliant use of color, attention to detail, and flights of fancy enchanted the public. His images were used to illustrate books and magazines, advertise products, grace calendars, and adorn walls. The Collectible Maxfield Parrish presents the great wealth and beauty of Maxfield Parrish's work in beautiful full-color images. This new book is focused on those items that are available in the market place and can be collected by the average person with a little diligence and investment of time and money. This is an essential reference for Parrish collectors and for any one who has an interest in the development of the illustrator's art in America.

Die Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munchen besitzt einen der weltweit bedeutendsten Bestande an deutschen Einblattholzschnitten des 15. Jahrhunderts. Sie werden in diesem Bestandskatalog erstmals in einem Buch vorgestellt. Die ersten europaischen Holzschnitte entstanden um 1400. Abbildungen wurden nun fur weite Kreise erreichbar und erschwinglich. Durch Gebrauch rasch verschlissen, zahlen diese fruhen Drucke heute zu den rarsten Kostbarkeiten. Aber nicht nur als historische Belege sind diese fruhen Blatter bedeutend. Es sind uberragende Meisterwerke linearer Ausdruckskraft, die zu den altesten Werken ihrer Art zahlen. Keine Sammlung der Welt vermag die Fruhzeit des Holzschnitts so uberragend zu belegen wie das Munchner Kabinett: Die Wiege der europaischen Druckgraphik wird in diesem Buch zuganglich.

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.

Im Italien des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts avancierte das formmimetische Abzeichnen zu einer zentralen Tatigkeit in den Kunstlerwerkstatten. OEkonomisierungsprozesse korrelierten mit einem neuartigen Bedurfnis nach Bildpropaganda, aber auch mit der Stilisierung bestimmter Kunstler und ihrer Werke zu originellen und kanonischen Vorbildern. So entstanden Zeichnungen, die den Anspruch erheben, das Werk einer individuellen Kunstlerpersoenlichkeit als abgeloestes Ganzes (opus absolutum) zu transportieren: Im Unterschied zu zeichenhaft verweisenden Kopien scheint hier jedes Bildelement zwingend. Diese Tendenz steht in einem wechselvollen Spannungsverhaltnis zu weiterlebenden Traditionen, in denen Vorbildliches als Muster (exemplum) weitergereicht oder bildthematische Vorgaben als iconographic guides nutzbar gemacht wurden.

A Sparrow's Life's as Sweet as Ours is a collection based on the Bird of the Month column in The Oldie, which is written by an instigator of the magazine, John McEwen and illustrated by renowned wildlife artist Carry Akroyd. In this beautiful new book, painter and printmaker Carry Akroyd presents a sequence of her small screenprints, full of variety and colour, that illustrate British birds in all four seasons of the year. These stunning prints give full rein to her extensive knowledge of the British landscape, and what shines out of these dynamic designs is Carry's deft capturing of each bird's characteristics set beautifully in relation to its habitat. Her consideration of each species combines accuracy with elegant simplicity. John McEwen's accompanying text is written with charm and concision, and his original columns have been updated for this new collection. John's light, eclectic approach connects snippets of ornithology, history, etymology and cookery, all expressed with wit and knowledge. His writing is spiced with poetry - from Chaucer to the present - as well as facts and stories, while personal and other anecdotes are included to inform and, above all, entertain.

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.

This important volume offers the first comprehensive look at the Arthur Ross Collection-more than 1,200 17th- to 20th-century Italian, French, and Spanish prints-and is published to mark the inaugural exhibition of the collection in its new home at the Yale University Art Gallery. Highlights include superb etchings by Canaletto and Tiepolo; the four volumes of Piranesi's Antiquities of Rome, as well as his famous Vedute (Views) and Carceri (Prisons); Goya's Tauromaquia in its first edition of 1816; an extremely rare etching by Edgar Degas; and numerous other 19th-century French prints, by Eugene Delacroix, Honore Daumier, Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, and others. The accompanying essays discuss the life of Arthur Ross, a significant philanthropist who funded several arts institutions; the formation of the collection and the art-historical significance of the works; and several thematic approaches to studying the collection, reinforcing its legacy as an important teaching resource. Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery Exhibition Schedule: Yale University Art Gallery (12/18/15-04/24/16) Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida (01/29/17-05/08/17) Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse University (08/17/17-11/19/17)

This group of 40 prints from the exceptional Daniel Cowin Collection captures the tumultuous aesthetic and political climate of the years surrounding World Wars I and II. An essay by Jonathan Black addresses the impact of World War I on two notable British printmakers, Edward Wadsworth and C. R. W. Nevinson. A text by Jay A. Clarke delves into the linocut movement of the 1920s and '30s, investigating how the role of style and politics impacted this movement as well as the previously unexplored position of women printmakers and the interplay between gender, craft, and decoration. Influences of Futurism, Cubism, and the short-lived but vibrant abstraction of the Vorticist movement saturate the powerful color images, which are accompanied by artist biographies. This publication illuminates the struggle of these radical printmakers as they navigated a conservative market and the harsh economic and political realities of their time. Distributed for the Clark Art Institute Exhibition Schedule: Clark Art Institute (02/28/15-05/17/15)

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.

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

History and art come together in this definitive discussion of the Chinese woodblock print form of nianhua, literally "New Year pictures." James Flath analyzes the role of nianhua in the home and later in the theatre and relates these artworks to the social, cultural, and political milieu of North China as it was between the late Qing dynasty and the early 1950s. Among the first studies in any field to treat folk art as historical text, this extraordinary account offers original insight into popular conceptions of domesticity, morality, gender, society, modernity, and the transformation of the genre as a propaganda tool under communism.

This work is a resource for those interested in any form of printmaking, from teachers and students to gallery staff, museum curators and historians. It provides a listing of the terms that relate to different types of printmaking. The book is filled with the artwork of a wide range of well-known printmakers from around the world. This is a beautiful as well as an informative book.

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.