Prints and Visual Communication (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262590020)

The sophistication of the photographic process has had two dramatic results--freeing the artist from the confines of journalistic reproductions and freeing the scientist from the unavoidable imprecision of the artist's prints. So released, both have prospered and produced their impressive nineteenth- and twentieth-century outputs. It is this premise that William M. Ivins, Jr., elaborates in Prints and Visual Communication, a history of printmaking from the crudest wood block, through engraving and lithography, to Talbot's discovery of the negative-positive photographic process and its far reaching consequences.

Author: William M. Ivins
ISBN-10: 0262590026
ISBN-13: 9780262590020
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/1969
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.87w x 0.67d