During the years 1627 and 1628, Charles I of England purchased the cream of the Gonzaga art collection, belonging to the dukes of Mantua, in what would become the greatest art deal of the 17th century. Among the treasures sold were ancient statues and stunning paintings by Titian, Raphael, Correggio, and Rubens. This book examines this fascinating and significant art sale from the perspective of the man who orchestrated it—Daniel Nijs (1572–1647), a Flemish merchant, collector, and dealer living in Venice. Christina M. Anderson brings Nijs to life, asserting that he was more than the avaricious and unscrupulous trader that most modern writers and scholars deem him to be. Anderson’s evocative text describes Nijs’s unique talent as a dealer, rooted in superior commercial skills, connections to artistic and diplomatic circles, and a deep love of art. The narrative reveals that Nijs was ultimately the pivotal figure involved with the Gonzaga sale, though also—when he later fell into bankruptcy and dishonor due to a deal gone awry—the most tragic.

The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection

Arts & Photography

Anderson, Christina

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP: Demystifying QTR for Photographers and Printmakers (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP is a text that fully explores how the QuadToneRIP printer driver can be used to make expert digital negatives. The book takes a comprehensive, Òunder-the-hoodÓ look at how Roy Harrington’s QTR printer driver can be adapted for use by artists in several different creative practice areas. The text is written from the Mac/Photoshop point of view. 
The book is divided into three parts. Part One is a step-by-step how-to section that will appeal to both beginning and more advanced practitioners. Part One includes quickstart guides or summary sheets for beginning students who want to jump into using QTR before understanding all of its functional components. Part Two addresses dimroom, darkroom, and printmaking practices, walking the reader through brief workflows from negative to print for lithium palladium, gum bichromate, cyanotype, salted paper, kallitype, silver gelatin and polymer photogravure, with a sample profile for each. It also includes an introduction to a new software iteration of QTR: QuickCurve-DN (QCDN). Part Three is devoted to contemporary practitioners who explain how they use QTR in their creative practice. 
The book includes: 
A list of supplies and software needed 
A summary QTR glossary with a simple explanation of how each function works 
A sample walk-through to create a QTR profile from start to finish 
How to linearize profiles with simple to more exacting tools 
A visual guide to modifying functions 
Quickstart guides for many of the workflows 
Instructions for crafting monochrome, duotone, tricolor, and quadcolor negatives 
Instructions for using QTR to print silver gelatin in the darkroom 
Instructions for using QTR to print alternative processes in the dimroom 
Instructions for using QTR to print polymer photogravure in the printmaking room 
Introductory chapter to QuickCurve-DN software 
Troubleshooting common QTR problems 
Generic starter profiles for processes discussed 
Contemporary artists: their work and QTR process. 
Learning how to craft expert digital negatives can be a bit overwhelming at the outset. Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP makes the process as user-friendly as possible. Like other books in the series, Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP is thoroughly comprehensive, accessible to different levels of learner, and illustrative of the contemporary arts.

Reeder, Ron

Graphic Design

Routledge

Klass, a homeless, young Black man, sets up residence in the courtyard of the housing project where Ida Peters lives. Triggered by a fatal confrontation between a local street vendor and the police, Klass and Ida quickly develop a precarious bond against the backdrop of a restless neighborhood. Inspired by the Greek myth Leda and the Swan, Blacktop Sky examines the intersection of love, violence, and seduction.

Blacktop Sky

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Traditional Black & White Photographic Materials (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

"The Experimental Darkroom is a book focused on traditional black & white photographic materials-darkroom chemistry and silver gelatin paper-now used in many non-traditional ways. The book starts with a comprehensive digital negatives chapter. Topics are divided into five sections: cameraless experimentation, camera experimentation, printing experimentation, finished print experimentation, and a section highlighting contemporary photographers who use these approaches today. Each process under discussion is accompanied by photographic examples and a step-by-step method written in a Just the facts, maam style. The Experimental Darkroom encourages taking risks and having fun. Over 400 images and 71 artists are included in its 276 pages. The outcome will be an expansion of creative options for the silver gelatin print. The options are engaging and now more accessible with digital negatives. Images are no longer solely captured in camera or on analog film. The darkroom is no longer always dark. The print is no longer a pristine and accurate rendition of what the camera sees. Photographers are pushing the boundaries of black & white photographic practice. It is an exciting time to get into the darkroom and play!"--

Photography & Video

Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice is a two-part book on gum bichromate written by the medium’s leading expert, Christina Z. Anderson. Section One provides a step-by-step description of the gum printing process. From setting up the "dimroom" (no darkroom required!) to evaluating finished prints, it walks the reader through everything that is needed to establish a firm gum practice with the simplest of setups at home. Section Two showcases contemporary artists’ works, illustrating the myriad ways gum is conceptualized and practiced today. The works in these pages range from monochrome to colorful and from subtle to bold, representing a variety of genres, including still lifes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, urbanscapes and more. Featuring over 80 artists and 400 full-color images, Gum Printing is the most complete overview of this dynamic and expressive medium that has yet appeared in print. Key topics covered include: <ul>
<li>The history of gum</li> <li>Simple digital negatives for gum, platinum, and cyanotype</li> <li>Preparing supplies</li> <li>Making monochrome, duotone, tricolor, and quadcolor gum prints</li> <li>Printing gum over cyanotype</li> <li>Printing gum over platinum</li> <li>Troubleshooting gum</li> <li>Advice on developing a creative practice</li> </ul>

Biographies & Memoirs

Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists makes one of the oldest known photographic processes easy for the 21st century using simple digital negative methods.   Christina Z. Anderson’s in-depth discussion begins with a history of salted paper printing, then covers the salted paper process from beginner to intermediate level, with step-by-step instructions and an illustrated troubleshooting guide. Including cameraless imagery, hand-coloring, salt in combination with gum, and printing on fabric, Salted Paper Printing contextualizes the practice within the varied alternative processes. Anderson offers richly-illustrated profiles of contemporary artists making salted paper prints, discussing their creative process and methods. Salted Paper Printing is perfect for the seasoned photographer looking to dip their toe into alternative processes, or for the photography student eager to engage with photography’s rich history.

Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists makes one of the oldest known photographic processes easy for the 21st century using simple digital negative methods. Christina Z. Anderson’s in-depth discussion begins with a history of salted paper printing, then covers the salted paper process from beginner to intermediate level, with step-by-step instructions and an illustrated troubleshooting guide. Including cameraless imagery, hand-coloring, salt in combination with gum, and printing on fabric, Salted Paper Printing contextualizes the practice within the varied alternative processes. Anderson offers richly-illustrated profiles of contemporary artists making salted paper prints, discussing their creative process and methods. Salted Paper Printing is perfect for the seasoned photographer looking to dip their toe into alternative processes, or for the photography student eager to engage with photography’s rich history.

Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice is a two part book on the much admired blue print process. Part One is a comprehensive how-to on the cyanotype process for both beginner and advanced practitioners, with lots of photographs and clear, step-by-step directions and formulas. Part Two highlights contemporary artists who are using cyanotype, making work that ranges from the photographic to the abstract, from the traditional to the conceptual, with tips on their personal cyanotype methods alongside their work. These artists illustrate cyanotype’s widespread use in contemporary photography today, probably the most of any alternative process. Book features include: <ul>
<li>A brief discussion of the practice of the process with some key historical points</li> <li>How to set up the cyanotype ÒdimroomÓ</li> <li>The most extensive discussion of suitable papers to date, with data from 100+ papers</li> <li>Step-by-step digital negative methods for monochrome and duotone negatives</li> <li>Chapters on classic, new, and other cyanotype formulas</li> <li>Toning to create colors from yellow to brown to violet</li> <li>Printing cyanotype over palladium, for those who want to temper cyanotype’s blue nature</li> <li>Printing cyanotype on alternate surfaces such as fabric, glass, and wood</li> <li>More creative practice ideas for cyanotype such as handcoloring and gold leafing</li> <li>Troubleshooting cyanotype, photographically illustrated</li> <li>Finishing, framing, and storing cyanotype</li> <li>Contemporary artists’ advice, techniques, and works</li> </ul>
Cyanotype is backed with research from 120 books, journals, and magazine articles from 1843 to the present day. It is richly illustrated with 400 photographs from close to 80 artists from 14 countries. It is a guide for the practitioner, from novice to expert, providing inspiration and proof of cyanotype’s original and increasing place in historical and contemporary photography.

Focal Press

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The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection

Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP: Demystifying QTR for Photographers and Printmakers (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP: Demystifying QTR for Photographers and Printmakers (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Blacktop Sky

The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Traditional Black & White Photographic Materials (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Traditional Black & White Photographic Materials (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Salted Paper Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Contemporary Artists (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)

Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography)