The Early Modern Painter-Etcher
208 pages | 151 color illustrations | 9 x 12 | 2006
ISBN 978-0-271-02905-4 | cloth: $55.00 sh
Paperback edition is not available
“This catalogue represents a real contribution and original and convincing explanations for the reason to consider the work of painter/etchers as a category apart. . . . I believe that this will become a useful and well-used resource for print historians, and will be one of the museum catalogues that will become more than a souvenir of a fascinating exhibit.”—Evelyn Lincoln, Brown University
For half a century after its introduction in Europe, printmakingremained the province of a specially trained groupof professionals. What changed this situation was theinvention of etching, which allowed for print designs to bedrawn directly onto a plate so that any competent draftsmancould try his hand at it. Many artists did, and as aresult, we now have a wide-ranging corpus of major Renaissanceand Baroque graphics made by artists who, thoughfamous in other fields, were novices in the print medium.
Featuring essays by Michael Cole, Larry Silver, Susan Dackerman,Graham Larkin, and exhibit co-curator MadeleineViljoen, The Early Modern Painter-Etcher spans three centuries,roughly from the time of Dürer to that of Goya, andlooks at works executed by some seventy painters for whomprintmaking was primarily an experimental field. The bookaccompanies an exhibition that opened in April 2006 at theUniversity of Pennsylvania and will travel to the RinglingMuseum of Art and to the Smith College Museum of Art.
Michael Cole is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture (2002) and the co-editor of Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism (2004).
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Fluid Boundaries: Formations of the Painter-Etcher 2 Dürer’s Etchings: Printed Drawings? 3 Drawing and Etching in Early Modern Europe 4 The Unfinished Eighteenth Century Bibliography Index
Foreword
Michael Cole
Michael Cole and Larry Silver
Susan Dackerman
Madeleine Viljoen
Graham Larkin
Catalogue