Contact : art and the pull of print
Jennifer L. Roberts
Bok Engelsk 2024
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| Opplysninger | "Printmaking today is considered to be a marginal, anachronistic practice, but with an outsized-if largely unacknowledged-role in contemporary art. Both in process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact across its many forms, whether woodcut, etching, engraving, lithography, or screenprinting. In this book, author Jennifer Roberts traces the material and spatial metamorphoses of the printmaking process through social and conceptual implications in the work of artists across time periods and cultural traditions. For Roberts, the concept of pressure-which is used to make any kind of print--becomes a tool for confronting questions of oppression and the reversals inherent in printmaking create structures for negotiating difference. Rather than discuss the implications of replication and reproduction, Roberts considers the physical operations of printmaking: pressure, reversal, separation, strain, interference, and alienation. These become metaphorical tools to contextualize the work of modern artists, including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Corita Kent, David Hammons, Edgar Heap of Birds, Christiane Baumgartner, and Glenn Ligon. Alongside discussions of earlier printmaking precedents, Roberts uses "the paradox of the pull" in contemporary practice to elucidate the ways in which printmaking processes both literally and metaphorically speak to social conditions of the present day"--
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| ISBN | 9780691255859
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