The Unfinished Print

Author:   Peter Parshall ,  Stacey Sell ,  Judith Brodie
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780853318200


Pages:   112
Publication Date:   28 June 2001
Format:   Hardback
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The question of ""finish"" in the artistic endeavour has been regarded with increasing fascination since the Renaissance. In the graphic arts this question has involved what it means to achieve aesthetic resolution in printmaking. This book investigates the history of finish and unfinish in printmaking from the 15th to the early 20th century. Historically speaking, proof impressions establish a partial record of the artist's procedure and, like drawings done in preparation for a painting or sculpture, they allow us to trace the thinking that attends the making of any work of art. Yet unlike these other media, printed proofs record exact stages in the evolution of the actual image itself. Printmakers have always been aware of the value of this process; certainly for Rembrandt, printmaker among printmakers, the revelation of creative process through successive states and differing impressions became fundamental to the concept of invention. But over time, collectors began also to take an interest in the various states of a print, which acquired value in their own right. The opening essay of this work examines the problem of finish in printmaking in its broader intellectual and cultural context. The second essay examines Rembrandt's radically experimental series of sketch-sheet etchings, and the final essay analyzes the extraordinary set of proof impressions of a multi-plate colour etching by Jacques Villon, a project that unveils the artist's break out of the aesthetic of the belle epoque and into modernity.

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Author:   Peter Parshall ,  Stacey Sell ,  Judith Brodie
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.762kg
ISBN:  

9780853318200


ISBN 10:   0853318204
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   28 June 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

"Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Unfinished business: The problem of resolution in printmaking, Peter Parshall; ""Quicke to invent & copious to expresse"": Rembrandt's sketch plates, Stacey Sell; The metamorphosis of Jacques Villon's La Parisienne, Judith Brodie; Bibliography; Checklist of the Exhibition."

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Peter Parshall is Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Stacey Sell is Assistant Curator of Old Master Drawings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Judith Brody is Associate Curator of Old Master Drawings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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