Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Prints

In the 1880s, James McNeil Whistler revolutionized the way artists represented the city of Venice by producing images that moved away from the major tourist monuments to depict the squares, back alleys, and isolated canals that only residents knew. His novel approach inspired generations of printmakers who worked in Venice, and this book celebrates their work.

Ernest David Roth (1879-1964) was one of the most significant American etchers of the first half of the 20th century, and his most important achievements are the views he did of Venice between 1905 and 1941. Roth and his...

Mit der Verbreitung der Portratfotografie und der Entstehung einer offentlichen Bilderwelt in der Moderne entdeckten Schriftsteller die Fotografie als Medium der Selbstdarstellung - und Verleger als ideales Werbemittel. Die Entwicklung des Autorenfotos als Mittel der Literaturvermittlung im 19. Jahrhundert bildet den Ausgangspunkt dieser Studie. Auf der Grundlage von Verlagsprospekten und Buchumschlagen seit 1900 wird die Entwicklung der Ikonografie des Autors ebenso wie die legitimer Kontexte der Bildverwendung erstmals systematisch untersucht und dabei der Bedeutungswandel des...

Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the most important artists eighteenth-century Europe produced. But Piranesi was more than an artist; he was an engraver and printmaker, architect, antiquities dealer, archaeologist, draftsman, publisher, bookseller, and author. In Piranesi's Lost Words, Heather Hyde Minor considers Piranesi the author and publisher, focusing on his major publications from 1756 to his death in 1778. Piranesi designed and manufactured twelve beautiful, large-format books combining visual and verbal content over the course of his lifetime. While the images from...