The print in the western world: an introductory history

Abstract

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.

Contents

Ch. 1. Early relief and intaglio techniques: Northern printmakers before Dürer -- Ch. 2. Dürer and other sixteenth-century Northern artists -- Ch. 3. Italian Renaissance prints -- Ch. 4. Etching in the seventeenth century -- Ch. 5. Reproductive printmaking and related developments from the later sixteenth through the eighteenth century -- Ch. 6. Original etching and engraving in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Ch. 7. The print and socio-political reform: Hogarth and his heirs and Goya -- Ch. 8. Lithography in the nineteenth century -- Ch. 9. The nineteenth century: the etching revival and new technical approaches -- Ch. 10. The German expressionists and related artists -- Ch. 11. Picasso and other European printmakers to the 1940s -- Ch. 12. American and Mexican printmaking to the mid-1940s -- Ch. 13. Printmaking in Europe and America after World War II -- Selected bibliography of print reference catalogs.