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Book Chapter Posted: 01/27/2023

‘It all Turns to Shit’ – The Land of Cockaigne in Sixteenth-Century German Woodcuts

Susanne Meurer. "‘It all Turns to Shit’ – The Land of Cockaigne in Sixteenth-Century German Woodcuts." In Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture, edited by Fabian Jonietz, Mandy Richter, Alison G. Stewart. Amsterdam: AUP, 2022: 229-55.
Cockaigne, the legendary land of plenty, formed a sub-theme of popular depictions
of gluttony in sixteenth-century prints. These images combined carnivalesque
exuberance and moralising caution, illustrating both excessive consumption
and its ill efffects, from inappropriately lascivious or slothful behaviour to the
physical need to expel from top and bottom. Scatological motifs emphasised the
grotesque nature of Cockaigne, providing laughter while also warning viewers
of the consequences of gluttonous behaviour in the here and now: that spending
on fleeting pleasure will reduce fortunes to shit. These themes are explored here
chiefly through an exceptionally large mid-sixteenth-century German woodcut
now in the New York Public Library, as well as two related woodcuts by Peter
Flötner.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Renaissance
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Book Chapter Posted: 06/22/2022

Si Disputano: Debate, Conversation, and Collaboration in the Vatican Bibliotheca Iulia

Lisa Pon. "Si Disputano: Debate, Conversation, and Collaboration in the Vatican Bibliotheca Iulia." In Revisiting Raphael's Vatican Stanze, edited by Kim Butler Wingfield and Tracy Cosgriff. Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2022: 98-107.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Renaissance
Book Chapter Posted: 04/21/2022

What Russian Printmakers Found in Paris

Galina Mardilovich. "What Russian Printmakers Found in Paris." In Disrupting Schools: Transnational Art Education in the Nineteenth Century, edited by France Nerlich and Eleonora Vratskidou. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2021: 115-125.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, 19th Century, Engraving, Etching, Relief printing
Book Chapter Posted: 03/06/2022

Hieronymus van Winghe and Collecting Prints from the Southern Netherlands in the early Seventeenth Century

. "Hieronymus van Winghe and Collecting Prints from the Southern Netherlands in the early Seventeenth Century." In Curieux d’estampes. Collections et collectionneurs de gravures en Europe (1500-1815), edited by M. Grivel, V. Meyer, E. Leutrat, and P. Wachenheim. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2022: 35-48.
Hieronymus Van Winghe, a canon at the cathedral in Tournai, came from a learned family and actively gathered texts and images that reflect a wide range of interests. Although few of the prints he collected are still preserved, records of his purchases via the Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp provide significant data as to how and what he collected. For, not only do they point to his reliance on the Galle family of print publishers for many of his acquisitions, but they also reveal numerous prints that he purchased at the end of his life. These last records provide valuable insights into not only Van Winghe’s own preferences, but also a glimpse of the general market for prints by artists from the Southern Netherlands in the early 17th century.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Renaissance, Baroque, Engraving, Etching
Book Chapter Posted: 11/24/2021

Kollwitz, Gender, Biography, and Social Activism

Jay A. Clarke. "Kollwitz, Gender, Biography, and Social Activism." In Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics, edited by Louis Marchesano. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute, 2019: 40-56.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, 20th Century, Etching, Lithography, Relief printing
Book Chapter Posted: 11/24/2021

Imperfect Impressions: Nikolai Astrup and the Art of Woodcut

Jay A. Clarke. "Imperfect Impressions: Nikolai Astrup and the Art of Woodcut." In Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway, edited by Maryanne Stevens. New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 2021: 54-73.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, 19th Century, 20th Century, Relief printing
Book Chapter Posted: 07/06/2021

Paint and Print in Motion: Karl Bodmer’s Atlas

Kristine Ronan. "Paint and Print in Motion: Karl Bodmer’s Atlas." In Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer, edited by Toby Jurovics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021: 194-209.
This essay reinterprets Karl Bodmer’s North American frontier watercolor portraits from the 1830s through their intended future destination and involvement in European print processes. I argue that Bodmer “painted print,” whereby the image separations required by print technologies shaped Bodmer’s working methods. Thus, Bodmer’s North American portraits are not complete representational spaces within themselves. Instead, their uneven completion, visual notations, blank backgrounds, and selected sections of detailed focus reflect their status as ever-moving image-objects within a larger print culture.
Relevant research areas: North America, Western Europe, 19th Century, Book arts, Engraving, Etching
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Book Chapter Posted: 02/11/2021

The Importance of Frankfurt Printing before 1550. Sebald Beham Move from Nuremberg to Frankfurt

Alison Stewart. "The Importance of Frankfurt Printing before 1550. Sebald Beham Move from Nuremberg to Frankfurt." In Crossroads: Frankfurt am Main as Market for Northern Art 1500-1800, edited by Miriam Hall Kirch, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Alison G. Stewart . Petersberg, Germany: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2019: 18-40.
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Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Renaissance, Book arts, Engraving, Relief printing
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Book Chapter Posted: 02/05/2021

Fashion, Nation, and Morality in the English Allegorical Costume Print, c. 1620-40

Heather Hughes. "Fashion, Nation, and Morality in the English Allegorical Costume Print, c. 1620-40." In Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary: Local Practices and Global Contexts, edited by Tara Zanardi and Lynda Klich. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2019: 15-30.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Renaissance, Baroque, Engraving
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Book Chapter Posted: 01/26/2021

Reproducibility, Propaganda and the Chinese Origins of Neoliberal Aesthetics

Victoria H. F. Scott. "Reproducibility, Propaganda and the Chinese Origins of Neoliberal Aesthetics." In Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution , edited by Jacopo Galimberti, Noemi de Haro-García and Victoria H. F. Scott. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019: 325-343.
Postmodernism is normally framed as a Western movement, with theoretical and philosophical roots in Europe. Scott’s essay links artistic postmodernism to the influence of Maoism in the West, specifically through the dissemination and absorption of the content and form of Maoist propaganda. Taking into consideration the broad significance of Mao and China for art and culture in the West in the second half of the twentieth-century, the essay comes to terms with the material effects of a global propaganda movement, and the remains of a personality cult, that currently transcends the traditional political categories of the Left and the Right.
Relevant research areas: North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, East Asia, 20th Century, Contemporary, Screenprinting
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