Grand Scale brings to light rare surviving examples of mural-size prints--a Renaissance art form nearly lost from historical record. The most famous 16th-century woodcuts, engravings, and etchings were those done on an intimate scale. Yet artists also worked in another entire category of print production, producing mural-size prints that sometimes reached as high as ten feet. This handsome book, which features nearly fifty examples from Italy, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, explores these multi-block woodcut and ...
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Grand Scale brings to light rare surviving examples of mural-size prints--a Renaissance art form nearly lost from historical record. The most famous 16th-century woodcuts, engravings, and etchings were those done on an intimate scale. Yet artists also worked in another entire category of print production, producing mural-size prints that sometimes reached as high as ten feet. This handsome book, which features nearly fifty examples from Italy, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, explores these multi-block woodcut and multi-plate engraving ensembles as vital contributions to the visual culture of their time. Comprising five essays, Grand Scale documents the relationship of monumental prints to the history of prints in general and also to mapmaking, painting, and book illustration, while addressing image design and modular printing from multiple, repeating blocks. Published in association with the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College Exhibition Schedule: Davis Museum and Cultural Center (March 19 - June 8, 2008) Yale University Art Gallery (September 9 - November 30, 2008) Philadelphia Museum of Art (January 31 - April 26, 2009)
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VG. Duotone illustrated boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. 176 pp. with 2 gatefolds; 47 duotone cataloge items pictured. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2008-2009 exhibitions. "The central goal of this exhibition is to display a selection of impressive and rare examples of this important yet unfamiliar category of prints that blossomed across Europe in the sixteenth century. [It] will introduce the composite print phenomenon in order to reassess and situate it within the history of Renaissance visual culture, while also hoping to stimulate further study. For the first time since the ground-breaking exhibition Riesenholzschnitte (Giant Woodcuts), held in Germany in 1976, this exhibition assembles nearly fifty of these multipart works in one place. [It], however, also expands the body of material from that earlier exhibition to include both engravings and etchings in addition to woodcuts." (p. 8) With essays by Larry Silver, Suzanne Boorsch, Lilian Armstrong, Alison Stewart, and Stephen Goddard, a substantial bibliography, and the exhibition checklist of 47 items. Beautiful and detailed reproductions of the prints.
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Very Good. Size: 10x0x11; 4to., profusely ill., 176 pp. Firm binding, no ownership markings, touch of bowing, light rubbing/small dents along bottom edges of boards.; Well packaged, ships with tracking.
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Fine. Foreword by David Mickenberg, Introduction by Elizabeth Wyckoff and Larry Silver. Essays by Various Authors. Well-illustrated throughout. 176 pages. Slim square 4to, cloth-backed pictorial boards. Wellesley: Davis Museum in association with Yale University Press, (2008). A fine copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition.
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New. 0300138792. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Corresponds to ISBN: 9780300138795. Text in English. 176 pp. (2 foldout) with 116 ills. (47 col. ). 29 x 28 cm. --with a bonus offer--
This catalogue is a treasure of photographs of etchings, engravings and woodcuts from the Renaissance era... The exhibit is currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art...
