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Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum

Autor Elizabeth Savage
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 iun 2021
This illustrated volume reproduces and describes effectively every early modern German color print held at the British Museum, one of the world’s most significant collections of these rare milestones of cultural heritage and technology. New photography reveals 150 impressions in jaw-dropping detail, some of which have never been seen in public or reproduced. 

From artworks to missals and icons to wallpapers, this book breaks new ground by revealing the fascinating underlying technologies that enabled the production of these color-printed objects. Further, the volume offers significant new scholarship, pinpointing attributions to printers—not just to artists or designers. In doing so, it lays the groundwork for a new understanding of the history of print, one that encompasses all forms of printed material. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this collection guide will be a standard reference on German graphic art, early modern visual culture, and the history of printing itself.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781911300755
ISBN-10: 191130075X
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 150 color plates
Dimensiuni: 216 x 260 x 28 mm
Greutate: 1.04 kg
Editura: Paul Holberton Publishing
Colecția Paul Holberton Publishing

Notă biografică

Elizabeth Savage is a senior lecturer in book history and communications at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.

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"Early Colour Printing will certainly appeal to professionals working within the history of the book, art history, or the history of early modern visual culture...Savage’s focus on color processes makes this work an excellent complement to the existing literature on print history. But even those who are not early modern or print specialists will find it valuable, as the combination of interesting subject material and engaging images make it a wonderful resource for anyone with an interest in art."

"With eighty-two entries richly illustrated in brilliant color and carefully described, Savage’s guide to early modern German color prints held at the British Museum is a resource to which scholars and nonspecialists alike will repeatedly return for its high-quality reproductions, clarity of text, and expert insights."

"From works of art and missals to wallpaper, German printers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were colorfully creative marvels. Their work is explored in detail for the first time in Early Colour Printing. . . . It is as much about book history and bibliography as it is about art history, so offers a new context for understanding color-printed book illustrations and title pages in readers' collections."

"This beautifully accessible, exhibition-style catalogue marks Elizabeth Savage's latest installment in her reinvention of early modern color printing history. Gorgeously produced and illustrated in full-page color with numerous detailed views, it persuasively argues for a more inclusive narrative of pre-1600 Germanic color woodcuts."

"With its contextualizing approach, this lucid study provides a detailed understanding of . . .sixteenth-century colour woodcut printing."

"Early Colour Printing analyzes at considerable depth the technical aspects of this important group of early woodcuts and justly stresses the fundamental contribution of their highly-skilled block cutters."

"While Savage’s book is both comprehensive and scholarly, its clear prose also speaks to a general public....rigorous yet accessible, her book focuses on objects but with a sense of the overall contexts and developments. This study readily serves as both a reference work and a survey introduction for German colored woodcut prints of the long sixteenth century."

"The design, printing and choice of paper of the catalogue...are to be praised."