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Vera Molnar

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  • Six million seven hundred and sixty-five thousand and two hundred and one Sainte-Victoire

  • Vera Molnar

Vera Molnar, Sainte-Victoire Interchangables: Noir & Blanc (2017)

Vera Molnar, Sainte-Victoire Interchangables: Orange & Bleu (2017)

Its prominent presence in the paintings Paul Cézanne has made the shape of Mont Sainte-Victoire familiar to generations of museum goers and art history students Read More

German Life, Real and Imagined

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  • The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770–1850

  • Edited by John Ittmann with additional essays by Warren Breckman, Mitchell B. Frank, Cordula Grewe, Catriona MacLeod and F. Carlo Schmid
It is a little-known fact that the Philadelphia Museum of Art owns 8,500 prints by 850 late 18th- and early 19th-century German, Austrian and Swiss artists Read More

Von Bartsch in Context

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  • Copy.Right: Adam von Bartsch: Kunst, Kommerz, Kennerschaft

  • Edited by Stephan Brakensiek, Anette Michels, and Anne-Katrin Sors
The 32 essays that constitute Copy.Right address developments in the production, collecting and connoisseurship of prints from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries. Technological innovations, the professionalization of the art market Read More

Plastered: Soviet Prohibition Posters

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  • Alcohol: Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters

  • Compiled, edited and designed by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell, with essays by Alexei Plutser-Sarno
The catalysts behind this volume, Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell, are the proprietors of FUEL, a London-based design and publishing company that has brought out a series of books on Russian design and public culture Read More

A Lone Star Bonanza

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  • Flatbed Press at 25

  • By Mark Lesly Smith and Katherine Brimberry
It rained mackerel. It rained trout. —Tom Waits (1992)
This five-and-three-quarter-pound tome celebrates a quarter-century (1989–2014) of the persistence and imagination of native Texans Read More

Prints and the British Arts Council Collection

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  • A Century of Prints in Britain

  • Foreword by Jill Constantine, essay by Julia Beaumont-Jones
A Century of Prints in Britain is a lively publication that looks at printmaking through the prism of the Arts Council collection, the largest loan collection of British art in the world. Julia Beaumont-Jones writes with both knowledge and enthusiasm Read More

The Glory Machine

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  • A Kingdom of Images: French Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, 1660–1715

  • Edited by Peter Fuhring, Louis Marchesano, Rémi Mathis and Vanessa Selbach
For those of us who believe that history is best told through objects and images, this book provides strength to our argument. In its pages we discover rarely exhibited or published works that reflect the collective aspirations, beliefs and aesthetic preferences of the French at the end of the 17th century Read More

Art in (Middle) America

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  • Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934–2000

  • Edited by Elizabeth G. Seaton, Jane Myers, and Gail Windisch, with a foreword by Linda Duke and contributions by Ellen Paul Denker, Karen J. Herbaugh, Lara Kuykendall, Bill North, Susan Teller, Tiffany Elena Washington and Kristina Wilson
Around 1970 my grandmother gave me a print by Käthe Kollwitz—Stehender Weiblicher Akt (Standing female nude, 1900)—that she had acquired a decade earlier in exchange for a week’s salary from her job as a sales clerk at Gimbels department store Read More

Stepping Stones: Garo Antreasian and American Lithography

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  • Garo Z. Antreasian: Reflections on Life and Art

  • By Garo Z. Antreasian with an introduction by William Peterson
Garo Antreasian’s contributions to the art and technology of lithography in post–World War II America are well-known, and parts of the story told in his recently published book will be familiar to many readers—the struggle to advance printmaking in mid-century America Read More

(Printed) Art in America

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  • Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art

  • By Judith Brodie, Amy Johnston and Michael J. Lewis with essays by 12 authors
Among the earliest works in the National Gallery of Art’s comprehensive summary of the history of American printmaking are four mezzotint portraits made by John Simon after John Verelst’s paintings of the Native American leaders who made a diplomatic visit to Queen Anne in London in 1710 Read More

The Afterlife of a Modest Miracle

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  • A Printed Icon in Early Modern Italy: Forlì’s Madonna of the Fire

  • By Lisa Pon
Lisa Pon’s new book tells the densely woven story of a very early, anonymously made, hand-colored, large woodcut of the Madonna and Child surrounded by saints and narrative images of the life of the Virgin and Christ, which seems to survive in only one tattered but much revered example Read More

Paul Coldwell’s Print and Matter

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  • Paul Coldwell: Material Things: Sculpture & Prints

  • Introduction by Amy Charlesworth; essays by Paul Coldwell and Anna Moszynska
Best known to readers of this journal as a printmaker, Paul Coldwell is also active as a sculptor, though he has rarely shown these two bodies of work together. His 2015 retrospective at the University of Bradford therefore offered a singular opportunity to pull his metal and cast-resin sculptures (many cast from accessories of daily life), artist’s books and prints together in a single conversation Read More

Constant Motion: The Print Career of Frank Stella

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  • Frank Stella Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné

  • By Richard H. Axsom with Leah Kolb
Frank Stella, one of the most brilliant printmakers of our time, stopped making prints in 2001. It was in that year that Kenneth Tyler, the master printer with whom Stella made his first print series at Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles in 1967, closed Tyler Graphics Ltd. Read More

Reclaiming the Means of Production: Self-Publishing in the 21st Century

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  • NO-ISBN: on self-publishing

  • Edited by Bernhard Cella, Leo Findeisen and Agnes Blaha

  • The Newsstand

  • By Lele Saveri

  • Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art

  • Edited by Sara Martinetti and Leontine Coelewij
Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair is a wildly popular event and it is just one of more than 40 artist’s book fairs that take place around the world every year. “When we began the fair [in 2006],” then-director AA Bronson explains, “we were highly aware of representing all the various forms of art publishing in the field: mainstream publishers, academic presses, art distribution companies, art magazines, small independent publishing companies.” Read More

Paper, Conservation and Context

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  • Historical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper

  • Edited by Margaret Holben Ellis
Historical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper is the most recent publication in the Getty Conservation Institute’s “Readings in Conservation” series. Like its six predecessors, the text is comprised of a collection of essays and excerpts, all organized into themes that conservators will find familiar Read More

Lost and Found: Norma Bassett Hall

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  • Norma Bassett Hall: Catalogue Raisonné of the Block Prints and Serigraphs

  • Joby Patterson
The historical obscurity of the 20th-century landscape artist Norma Bassett Hall (1888–1957) is the result of many factors: she did not find her métier until she was in her thirties; that métier was the quiet medium of color woodblock Read More