Roberts, Jennifer L., 1969-, Contact , [2024]
- Title(s):
- Contact : art and the pull of print / Jennifer L. Roberts.
- Published/Created:
- Princeton [New Jersey] ; Oxford [England] : Princeton University Press, [2024]
©2024 - Physical Description:
- ix, 220 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference Library NE850 .R56 2024 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/alma/99176561303408651
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- "This is the seventieth volume of the A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, which are delivered annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. This volume is based on lectures delivered in 2021. The volumes of lectures constitute number XXXV in the Bollingen series, supported by the Bollingen Foundation."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-208) and index.
"In process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an image between surfaces, under pressure, followed by release. 'Contact' reveals how the physical properties of print have their own poetics and politics and provides a new framework for understanding the intelligence and continuing relevance of printmaking today. The seemingly simple physics of printmaking brings with it an array of metamorphoses that give expression to many of the social and conceptual concerns at the heart of modern and contemporary art. Exploring transformations such as reversal, separation, and interference, Jennifer Roberts explores these dynamics in the work of Christiane Baumgartner, David Hammons, Edgar Heap of Birds, Jasper Johns, Corita Kent, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Robert Rauschenberg, and many other leading artists who work at the edge of the medium and beyond. Focusing on the material and spatial transformations of the printmaking process rather than its reproducibility, this beautifully illustrated book explores the connections between print, painting, and sculpture, but also between the fine arts, industrial arts, decorative arts, and domestic arts. Throughout, Roberts asks what artists are learning from print, and what we, in turn, can learn from them."-- Publisher's website, viewed on October 23, 2024. - Subject Terms:
- Prints -- Technique.
- Form/Genre:
- works of art.
Art.
Art criticism.
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