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Название: Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures
Автор(ы): A Hyatt Mayor
Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Ar
Год: 1971
Страниц: 497
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 71 MB
Печать и люди: Социальная история печатных изображений.
Why were prints made? Who bought them? How did print publishers attract new publics? What printmakers discovered new ways of seeing? In this book such questions and some of their answers begin almost with the invention of paper in China and extend across time and the world to a consideration of the possibilities in printmaking today, this side of expressionism and abstraction. Besides evaluating more than 700 prints as works of art, A. Hyatt Mayor's far from conventional account of the medium points out precise effects of prints on literacy, commerce, science, fashions, religion, and political power—in short, it deals with prints' effects upon people, placing the art itself in the stream of life. In this it differs from earlier histories that concentrate on artistic merit and bibliographic data but seem little aware of the significance of the exactly repeated image as a communications device.