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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 03/07/2025

Arte y anatomía en el Renacimiento. Juan Valverde de Amusco y la Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano

José Ramón Marcaida, Sergio Ramiro Ramírez, David García López. Arte y anatomía en el Renacimiento. Juan Valverde de Amusco y la Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano. Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España, 2024.
Essay-like publication (not an exhibition catalogue per se) on the exhibition held at the Spanish National Library "Arte y anatomía en el Renacimiento. Juan Valverde de Amusco y la Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano" (November 2024-March 2025).

A PDF of the book is available for free at the BNE website (see link below)
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Renaissance, Baroque, Book arts, Engraving, Relief printing
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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 01/09/2025

Im/Materiality in Renaissance Arts: A special issue of Arts Journal

Lisa Pon, Kate van Orden. Im/Materiality in Renaissance Arts: A special issue of Arts Journal. online open source: Arts Journal, 2023.
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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 08/29/2024

Prints at the Oriental Club

Ian Herbertson. Prints at the Oriental Club. London: Helion & Company, 2023.
A guide to the prints and drawings at the Oriental Club in London. These are mostly Daniells but also Fraser, Havell and Hodges etc. The guide also includes nineteenth century Mughal and RAjput watercolours.
Relevant research areas: South Asia, 18th Century, 19th Century, Engraving, Etching, Lithography
Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 10/25/2023

The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints

Holly Borham, Peter Parshall. The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints. Austin, Texas: Blanton Musem of Art, 2023.
Beginning in the early 1960s, with only the meager budget of a part-time art history professor, Leo Steinberg (1920–2011) amassed a collection of more than 3,500 prints that spans the medium’s five-hundred-year history in the West. Akin to books on a shelf, Steinberg’s prints formed a visual library that shaped his scholarship in fundamental ways. His collection, incorporating the work of artists both famous and obscure, illuminates his claim that in the era before photography, prints functioned as the “circulating lifeblood of ideas,” disseminating figures, compositions, and styles across boundaries of geography, time, and medium. Through close observation of his own prints, Steinberg developed some of his most innovative arguments about the instructive richness of the copy and the expressive potential of body language, while also challenging reigning orthodoxies about modernism. This lavishly illustrated volume with essays by Holly Borham and Peter Parshall examines the development of Steinberg’s remarkable collection and its role in his scholarship. It also serves as a detailed guide to the collection, now housed at the Blanton Museum of Art, and as an introduction to the history of Western printmaking that it broadly encompasses.
Relevant research areas: North America, Western Europe, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Engraving, Etching, Letterpress, Lithography, Monoprinting, Relief printing, Screenprinting
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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 04/17/2023

Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789-1828

Allison Stagg. Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789-1828. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2023.
Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and opinions with their audiences in shockingly radical ways. Complementing studies on British and European printmaking, this book is a survey and catalogue of all known American political caricatures created in the country’s transformative early years, as the nation sought to define itself in relation to European models of governance and artistry.
Allison Stagg examines printed caricatures that mocked events reported in newspapers and politicians in the United States’ fledgling government, reactions captured in the personal papers of the politicians being satirized, and the lives of the artists who satirized them. Stagg’s work fills a large gap in early American scholarship, one that has escaped thorough art-historical attention because of the rarity of extant images and the lack of understanding of how these images fit into their political context.

Featuring 125 images, many published here for the first time since their original appearance, and a comprehensive appendix that includes a checklist of caricature prints with dates, titles, artists, references, and other essential information, Prints of a New Kind will be welcomed by scholars and students of early American history and art history as well as visual, material, and print culture.
Relevant research areas: North America, Western Europe, 18th Century, 19th Century, Engraving, Etching, Lithography
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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 02/12/2023

You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!

Chiquita Mullins Lee, Carmella Van Vleet. You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!. New York: Penguin Random House, 2023.
A picture book biography about the barber shop of woodcarver Elijah Pierce, recipient of the highest folk art honor in the United States.

“Creeeeak!” goes the screen door to self-taught artist Elijah Pierce’s barbershop art studio. A young boy walks in for an ordinary haircut and walks out having discovered a lifetime of art.

Mr. Pierce’s wood carvings are in every corner of the small studio. There are animals, scenes from his life, and those detailing the socio-political world around him. It’s this collection of work that will eventually win Elijah the National Heritage Fellowship in 1982 just two years before his death. But the young boy visiting the shop in the 1970s doesn’t know that yet. All he knows is: “You gotta meet Mr. Pierce!”

Based on the true story of Elijah Pierce and his community barber shop in Columbus, Ohio, this picture book includes cleverly collaged museum-sourced photos of his art and informative backmatter about his life. With engaging text by Pierce to the Soul! playwright Chiquita Mullins-Lee and Christopher Award-winning author Carmella Van Vleet, it’s illustrated with striking Japanese woodblock by Jennifer Mack-Watkins. A new addition to vital Black art history!

Relevant research areas: Relief printing
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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 02/10/2023

Seven Seadly Sins. Seven mixed media lithographs by Ann Chernow. Nine poems by Jane Allinson

Jane Allinson. Seven Seadly Sins. Seven mixed media lithographs by Ann Chernow. Nine poems by Jane Allinson. Westport, Connecticut: Baker Graphics, 2020.
Ann Chernow is an artist whose subject matter is based on women's images from the 1930s and 1940s "Film Noir" movies. These movies were the first as genre to depict 'independent' women; they influenced the female movie-goer in ways that changed the nation's gender attitudes. Joan Crawford and many other stars of said films were emblematic of the 'new' women. Although she alters the actual scenes that she works from, and uses contemporary models, Chernow's paintings, drawings and prints capture and redeem the emotional, universal moments from these Film Noir movies.
For her fourth Noir portfolio of fine prints, she has collaborated with Jane Allinson who wrote
parodic poems of famous authors and interpreted them with a tongue-in-cheek Noir tone.
Relevant research areas: North America, Book arts, Digital printmaking
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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 02/09/2023

Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory

Tatiana Reinoza. Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023.
Printmakers have conspired, historically, to illustrate the maps created by European colonizers that were used to chart and claim their expanding territories. Over the last three decades, Latinx artists and print studios have reclaimed this printed art form for their own spatial discourse. This book examines the limited editions produced at four art studios around the US that span everything from sly critiques of Manifest Destiny to printed portraits of Dreamers in Texas.

Reclaiming the Americas is the visual history of Latinx printmaking in the US. Tatiana Reinoza employs a pan-ethnic comparative model for this interdisciplinary study of graphic art, drawing on art history, Latinx studies, and geography in her discussions. The book contests printmaking’s historical complicity in the logics of colonization and restores the art form and the lands it once illustrated to the Indigenous, migrant, mestiza/o, and Afro-descendant people of the Americas.
Relevant research areas: North America, South America, Contemporary, Etching, Lithography, Relief printing, Screenprinting
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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 02/01/2023

The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe

Stephanie Porras. The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe. University Park, PA: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2023.
As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of internet culture, virality provides a critical vocabulary for addressing questions raised by the global mobility and reproduction of early modern artworks. This book uses the concept of virality to study artworks’ role in the uneven processes of early modern globalization.
Drawing from archival research in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Stephanie Porras traces the trajectories of two interrelated objects made in Antwerp in the late sixteenth century: Gerónimo Nadal’s Evangelicae historiae imagines, an illustrated devotional text published and promoted by the Society of Jesus, and a singular composition by Maerten de Vos, St. Michael the Archangel. Both were reproduced and adapted across the early modern world in the seventeenth century. Porras examines how and why these objects traveled and were adopted as models by Spanish and Latin American painters, Chinese printmakers, Mughal miniaturists, and Filipino ivory carvers. Reassessing the creative labor underpinning the production of a diverse array of copies, citations, and reproductions, Porras uses virality to elucidate the interstices of the agency of individual artists or patrons, powerful gatekeepers and social networks, and economic, political, and religious infrastructures. In doing so, she tests and contests several analytical models that have dominated art-historical scholarship of the global early modern period, putting pressure on notions of copying, agency, context, and viewership.

Vital and engaging, The First Viral Images sheds new light on how artworks, as agents of globalization, navigated and contributed to the emerging and intertwined global infrastructures of Catholicism, commerce, and colonialism.
Relevant research areas: South America, Western Europe, South Asia, East Asia, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th Century
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Book or Exhibition Catalog Posted: 01/10/2023

Goya’s Caprichos in 19th-Century France: Politics of the Grotesque

Paula Fayos-Perez. Goya’s Caprichos in 19th-Century France: Politics of the Grotesque. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH), 2024.
The impact of Goya’s oeuvre and particularly of the Caprichos (1799) on nineteenth-century French art was immense, long lasting and multifaceted. Whereas in Spain Goya was associated with the work he produced as court painter, in France he became known as the author of the Caprichos, interpreted by the Romantics as a lampoon of late eighteenth-century Spain. This vision overlooked the fact that the true modernity of Goya’s work lies in its universalism, as a mirror reflecting the essence of humankind, unfettered by patriotism—this is also true of his monsters and witches, which are nothing more than the deformed reflection of humans. It could be argued that this was a two-way influence: Goya contributed to shape French Romantic art—and thus the beginning of modern art—and the Romantics in turn modelled his critical image. This study challenges the established interpretation of the Spanish artist that has dominated the scholarship until recently, based on Romantic stereotypes, many of which have been perpetuated to this day.

Goya became known in the French market—the main receptor of his work—through his graphic oeuvre. This was promoted by artists, critics and collectors such as Charles Yriarte, Paul Lefort and Eugène Piot, most of them in association with the Spanish artist and dealer Valentín Carderera. Goya’s influence can be divided into two broad categories: aesthetics and politics. On the one hand, artists of the Romantisme noir—focusing on the taste for the grotesque and the literary vision of Spain—saw Goya as the last representative of the Spanish School. On the other, the political impact of his work can be appreciated in the satirical prints produced by artists such as Honoré Daumier and J. J. Grandville, who held him to be a politically engaged caricaturist who fought against censorship and mocked the aristocracy and the clergy. The case of Eugène Delacroix offers the richest example of Goya’s impact on nineteenth-century French art, here backed up by a catalogue of forty of his copies after the Caprichos, some of them hitherto unpublished.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, 18th Century, 19th Century, Book arts, Etching, Lithography
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