This article examines Jules and Edmond de Goncourt’s novels in the context of the nineteenth-century etching revival and the brothers’ personal experience as aquafortistes, proposing that their engagement with etching influenced their novels in three ways. First, it suggests that the fragmented narrative, structure, and style of the Goncourts’ novels draw on the same principles as nineteenth-century print albums, which similarly emphasized discontinuity and juxtaposition. Secondly, an investigation of the brothers’ use of Charles Méryon’s etchings in their novel Manette Salomon reveals their interest in both textual transpositions of Méryon’s style and the literary topos associated with his work. Finally, the article concludes by exploring how the Goncourt brothers incorporated vocabulary and techniques from etching into their écriture artiste, moving beyond prior readings of their novels in relation to painting and demonstrating the diversity of artistic inspiration for their writing.

German printmaker Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) is known for her unapologetic social and political imagery; her representations of grief, suffering, and struggle; and her equivocal ideas about artistic and political labels. This volume explores Kollwitz’s obsessive printmaking experiments and the evolution of her images, and assesses the unusually rich progressions of preparatory drawings, proofs, and rejected images behind Kollwitz’s compositions of struggling workers, rebellious peasants, and grieving mothers.

This selected catalogue of the Dr. Richard A. Simms collection at the Getty Research Institute provides a bird’s-eye view of Kollwitz’s sequences of images as well as the interrelationships among prints produced over multiple years. The meanings and sentiments emerging from Kollwitz’s images are not, as is often implied, unmediated expressions of her politics and emotions. Rather, Kollwitz transformed images with deliberate technical and formal experiments, seemingly endless adjustments, wholesale rejections, and strategic regroupings of figures and forms—all of which demonstrate that her obsessive dedication to making art was never a straightforward means to political or emotional ends.

This volume was published to accompany an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center December 3, 2019, through March 29, 2020; and the Art Institute of Chicago May 30 through September 13, 2020.

Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon's history, marked by anticolonial struggle and complicated by a Cold War order. Cosmopolitan Radicalism uncovers the transnational circuits that animated Arab modernist pursuits and sheds light on the forgotten trajectories and graphic design practices of its protagonists: Egyptian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian artists who wove through Beirut, in and out of its flourishing art galleries, publishing industry and political movements. Drawing on uncharted archives of everyday print media, the book reveals the translocal visuality that emerged with—and, crucially, shaped—Beirut’s development as a nodal city in the global sixties. It does so by focusing on three interrelated themes: the first is concerned with state promotions of Beirut as a Mediterranean site of international tourism and modern leisure; the second, with the city’s rise as a cultural nexus of modern art, pan-Arab publishing and anticolonial contestation, covert CIA funding notwithstanding; and the third, with its transformation, through the rise of the Palestinian Resistance, as a node in Third Worldist revolutionary anti-imperialism and transnational solidarity. Against a celebratory reminiscence of the ‘golden years’, Beirut's long sixties is conceived of as a liminal juncture, an anxious time and place when the city held out promises at once politically radical and radically cosmopolitan.

Landfall Press: Five Decades is a 628 page hardbound book that documents five decades of
Landfall Press with a special introductory section that examines the early life and
professional career of Landfall’s founder/owner - Jack Lemon. The five decades of Jack
Lemon’s life’s work was not just printing and publishing the prints, multiples, portfolios,
books, posters, magazines, catalogs, and 33rpm and 45rpm vinyl records, it’s also the
relationships he’s initiated and maintained over those 50 years. The book makes real the
value of strong collaborative partnerships and the extraordinary expertise required to make
art that’s significant and fundamental to the history of art.

Therefore, the book is truly a history book that places Jack Lemon and Landfall Press in the
proper context, the context of 20th and 21st Century art history. Authored by Thomas
Cvikota, with a Forward, written by Nikki Otten (Curator of Prints and Drawings at the
Milwaukee Art Museum) and a Preface written by Mark Pascale (The Janet and Craig
Duchossois Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago). The book
includes many never before published photographs from inside the Landfall workshops,
showing the printed art, the artists and the staff in production situations that illustrate the
text and make each decade a story unto itself. The story of Landfall Press is told in Jack
Lemon’s own voice, from a series of one-on-one interviews with the author. The book
explores the philosophy, the inspiration and the practices that make Landfall Press and Jack
Lemon a true American story, of entrepreneurship, technical innovation, longevity,
philanthropy, and collaborative genius.

Included in the book: A full index and a complete log of all the editions/projects, printed
and/or published by Landfall Press over fifty years. Special bound, dust-jacketed book with
grosgrain ribbon place marker. The book measures 13.25 x 9.5 x 2 inches. Each book
individually boxed and shipped from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Taxes apply. International
orders please contact us for rates. Both editions, the special edition signed by Jack Lemon and
the author, and the unsigned are shipping now.

Please direct all inquiries to: info@landfallpress.com

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By way of preparing a lithography stone for use, this narrative takes a polychronic journey between Jurassic lagoons and digital space, to reflect on the intimate relationship between a limestone matrix and a body moving through time. My intention is to consider this transformative coupling of geological matter and lived experience, through its temporal, environmental, inter-personal, and physical affects. Illuminating this task, a collection of observations that consider lithography stone as geological trace, material, technology, and artefact. In lingering on the substance of lithography stone, this language making process takes a materially grounded view, to explore the mutually generative worlds of stone lithography and writing.

Appreciation of Goya’s work in nineteenth-century France owed much to the endeavours of the artist
Valentín Carderera. Unpublished correspondence reveals how he distributed prints and drawings
from his major collection of Goya’s work by sale or exchange among artists, writers and historians,
including Prosper Mérimée and Gustave Brunet.

This celebratory publication honoring Professor Dario Gamboni's work explores the various uses of the postcard since its invention.

With contributions by Andreas Beyer, Sarah Burkhalter, Penelope Curtis, Thierry Dufrêne, Finbarr Barry Flood, Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Gloria Groom, Michèle Hannoosh, Haruko Hirota, Shigemi Inaga, Joseph Leo Koerner, Fred Leeman, Anne Pingeot, Dominique Poulot, Rodolphe Rapetti, Laurence Schmidlin, Richard Shiff, Harriet Stratis, Felix Thürlemann, Philip Ursprung, and Peter Weibel.

An original drawing by Swiss artists Markus Raetz adorns the book cover.

The work of American artist Kiki Smith, born 1954, is a meditation on the body. Smith observes every aspect of corporal materiality and the conditions that shape our life on earth: physically, spiritually, and politically, but also with regard to emotive categories like control and disgust. Her earlier work often fragmented the body into organs, fluids, and senses. Later, she depicted it as an envelope. Yet in her most recent art she has taken a step back to evoke mankind’s relationship with its environment. Smith uses a wide range of materials and techniques, with a particular interest in the fragility and expressive potential of paper and its resemblance to human skin. This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at MCBA Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, offers a survey of some forty years of Kiki Smith’s art making, examining in particular the sensory dimension of her output.