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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Parshall , Stacey Sell , Judith BrodiePublisher: 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: 9780853318200ISBN 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 ![]() 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."Reviews'...a useful addition to academic libraries. General readers; undergraduates through professionals.' Choice Author InformationPeter 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |