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Prints and Printmakers of New York State, 1825 1940 (Hardcover, illustrated Edition)
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Prints and Printmakers of New York State, 1825 1940 (Hardcover, illustrated Edition)
Series: New York State Series
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For well over a century, New York has been a microcosm of the art
and craft of American printmaking. Until 1825, printmaking in
America was almost entirely an artisan's craft. Then, with the
arrival of lithography, the realization arose that printmaking
could also be a fine art. The essays published in this collection
contribute to the body of scholarship by identifying important but
hitherto insufficiently studied aspects of the graphic arts and
treating them authoritatively. Their subjects concern prints in New
York State, whose great metropolitan city was, after 1825, the
acknowledged center of nearly everything important in the graphic
arts in the U.S. The history of American prints from 1825 on is
enormously rich, yet until the 1970s it was the least studied and
understood aspect of the history of art in North America. It is a
history more deeply rooted in popular culture and more closely
tied, for a long time, to the world of commerce than the other
arts. The usually small-scale, sometimes ephemeral, and often
highly subtle (or highly unsubtle) nature of prints makes it easy
to overlook them. The collection of essays included here were
originally presented at the Twelfth Annual North American Print
Conference, held in 1981 in Syracuse, New York. Locally organized,
these conferences have been held during the last decade throughout
the U.S. and Canada to further the study of the history of the
pictorial graphic arts in North America. Contributors include
several leading historians of the graphic arts of
nineteenth-century America. Their chapters bring to life and flesh
out figures who were previously little more than names, establish
facts that correct long-held erroneous assumptions, introduce many
prints of exceptional interest that have remained out of the public
view for generations, and provide a rich, new context for many
familiar images.
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