January–February 2016
Volume 5, Number 5
Details
Recognizing that love—like God and the devil—lives in the details, Art in Print asked twenty artists, scholars, conservators and collectors to write about a favorite square inch. Their selections stretch across 490 years and three continents; worlds tumble outward, wormholes invite us in.
In This Issue:
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On Detail
Introduction to Volume 5, Number 5.
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An Undiscovered State of Albrecht Dürer’s Large Cannon
A new state of this well-known work.
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St. Anthony’s Toes: Following Dürer’s Line
Philosophy in the saint’s casually splayed toes.
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Drawing in the Dirt at the Feet of Christ: Rembrandt
The unbothered child that Rembrandt placed at the feet of the preaching Christ.
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A Loose Thread and the Virgin’s Lap: Jacques Bellange
An indolent thread traversing the lap of Bellange’s Virgin with Distaff.
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A Chinese Letter Paper from 1644 (and 1952)
A (replica) 1644 color woodcut from Nanjing.
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The Beauty of Line and Spit in William Hogarth
A “line of beauty” in the fluid trajectory of a prostitute’s spittle.
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The Left Eye of Johann Philipp von Schönborn
The genius of Wallerant Vaillant in the glint of a sitter’s left eye.
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Finding Rome in Piranesi’s Rome
The shadows of Piranesi’s Ponte Fabrizio.
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The Divinity of Detail: Raphael and Johann Gotthard Müller
The bewildering assiduousness of Müller’s 1804 engraving after Raphael.
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A Bit of Something White in Joseph Kidd’s Jamaican View
Racial anxieties embedded in a lump of white carrion.
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Agostino Lauro and the Strange Engraver’s Daughter
The eerie hyper-focus of Lauro's 1845 print.
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Käthe Kollwitz and the Face of Grief
The physiognomy of grief.
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Giorgio Morandi: Epiphany in a Bottle
A transformative encounter with the lines of Morandi's engraving.
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William Henry Johnson’s Jitterbugs II
How materials become meaning.
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The Affecting Scale of Walter Inglis Anderson
How one section of a linocut evokes an entire ecosystem.
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Brilliant Mistakes: James Kelly’s Deep Blue I
A celebration of printing errors.
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What Seems To Be Isn’t: Robert Gober’s Untitled (1999)
A chilling detail in Robert Gober’s Untitled (1991 for Parkett 27).
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An Infinite Inch: A Reflection on Vivien Bittencourt’s Palatino
A mysterious incident in a photograph of Roman ruins.
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Art at the Threshold: An Inch in Andrew Raftery’s Open House
Social history, epistemology and love.
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New York Auction Round-Up: Fall 2015
A report on the fall auction season.
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New York Print Week 2015
The IFPDA and E/AB Fairs in New York.
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Multiplied 2015
London's contemporary editions fair.
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Prix de Print, No. 15: Edition by Bill Thompson
A work of self-referential, Droste effect recursion.
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Ann Chernow and the Influence of Alberto Giacometti
A review of Chernow's etching, I Suddenly Realized (2013).
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Bernard Cohen Now
The print career of a British painter.