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| Genre/Form: | Exhibitions Expositions |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Government publication, National government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter W Parshall; Rainer Schoch; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. |
| ISBN: | 0894683187 9780894683183 3936688087 9783936688085 0300113390 9780300113396 |
| OCLC Number: | 60414559 |
| Notes: | Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Sept. 4-Nov. 27, 2005, and at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Dec. 13, 2005-Mar. 19, 2006. |
| Description: | ix, 371 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. |
| Contents: | Early woodcuts and the reception of the primitive / Peter Parshall and Rainer Schoch -- The early woodcut: the known and the unknown / Richard S. Field -- The multiple image: the beginnings of printmaking, between old theories and new approaches / Peter Schmidt -- Catalogue. Techniques of replication -- Traces of an early style -- Reception and markets -- Passion and compassion -- Intercession and instruction -- The saints. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Parshall and Rainer Schoch, with David S. Areford, Richard S. Field, and Peter Schmidt. |
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Abstract:
"In this illustrated book, an international team of scholars examines and reinterprets more than one hundred distinctive works, challenging long-standing assumptions about the beginnings of printmaking and exploring the very origins of a transformation in media that has had a profound impact on Western culture." "Central aspects of this study are the complex problem of reconstructing the beginnings of the European woodcut and defining its earliest characteristics, the practice of copying and disseminating models endemic to the medium, and the varied functions of the print from the spiritual to the secular. As the authors reveal, mass-produced pictures made it possible for people of all situations to possess them, thereby initiating a change in the role of images that are eventually helped after the definition of art itself."--BOOK JACKET.
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