The first comprehensive history of late medieval printmaking, which transformed image production and led to profound changes in Western culture This highly anticipated and beautifully illustrated book examines the evolution of early printmaking in late medieval Europe. Through their means of production and the evidence of their utility, prints are explored in a broad social and economic context. Key topics include the complex problem of reconstructing the beginnings of the European woodcut; the practice of copying and dissemination of models endemic to the medium; and the varied functions of the print from the spiritual to the secular.
 A team of expert authors examines the many ways in which fifteenth-century woodcuts and metalcuts reflect the nature of piety and visual experience. Replicated images helped to structure private religious practice, transmit beliefs, disseminate knowledge about material facts, and graph abstract ideas. Mass-produced pictures made it feasible for people of all stations to possess them, thereby initiating a change in the role of images that eventually helped alter the definition of art itself.
 The Origins of European Printmaking is an essential book for art historians, students, and collectors, as well as the general reader with an interest in medieval history and culture.

Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public

Arts & Photography

Peter Parshall

David S Areford

Rainer Schoch

PETER SCHMIDT

Richard S. Field

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Prints: History of an Art

Michel Melot

Anthony Griffiths

Andre Beguin

Graphic Design

Skira/Rizzoli

Hard cover with dust jacket, kept in mylar cover. First edition. Cloth jacket 278 pp., 338 illus. 86 in full color.

Prints - History of an Art

Rizzoli

Book by Richard S. Field, Mel Bochner, Yale University Art Gallery (Cor), Bruce Boice, Yve-Alain Bois, James Meyer, Rosalind E. Krauss

Thought Made Visible: 1966-1973

Yve-Alain Bois

Mel Bochner

Yale University Art Gallery (Cor)

Bruce Boice

James Meyer

Rosalind E. Krauss

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Yale Univ Art Gallery

Excerpt from The Provincial Courts of New Jersey: With Sketches of the Bench and Bar; A Discourse, Read Before the New Jersey Historical SocietyThe following Paper was prepared at the request of the Executive Committee of the New Jersey Historical Society. A portion of it was read at the annual meeting in Trenton, on the twentieth of January, 1848, and the residue at a meeting in Newark, on the twenty-fifth of May following. It was written without the slightest view to its being published, at least in its present form. While it was hoped, that it would not be altogether without value in the eyes of my professional brethren, to whom it was more particularly addressed, it was not supposed that the subject was one in which the public at large could be made to take much interest. The Society, however, having requested a copy for publication, I have not felt myself at liberty to withhold it.My object has been, not so much to bring together what is already known, with regard to our Courts, and the character of those who have figured on the Bench and at the Bar, as to rescue from the past such scattered memorials of them as were in danger of perishing for ever.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Provincial Courts of New Jersey: With Sketches of the Bench and Bar; A Discourse, Read Before the New Jersey Historical Society (Classic Reprint)

History

Forgotten Books

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