{"product_id":"the-radical-print-esther-chadwick-9781913107437","title":"The Radical Print","description":"\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking account of printmaking in Britain that explores the medium's intersection with radical politics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Radical Print\u003c\/i\u003e argues for printmaking in Britain as the most exciting, innovative, and critically engaged field of artistic production in the late eighteenth century. Moving the print from the margins to the centre of the study of art history, this new critical study demonstrates how print responded to the acceleration of historical events, the polarisation of public discourse, and the sense of a world turned upside down in ways that traditional artistic media could not. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Across five chapters, this book brings printmakers James Barry, John Hamilton Mortimer, James Gillray, Thomas Bewick, and William Blake together as artists of the \"Paper Age\" for the first time. From Barry's experiments in aquatint at the time of the American Revolution to Blake's visionary engravings of the post-Napoleonic period, Chadwick shows how the print medium provided artists with special purchase on the major political issues of their age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Radical Print\u003c\/i\u003e assembles a rich array of material, from the period's best-known prints to unpublished ephemera, revealing print's dynamic role in one of the most turbulent periods of British history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Esther Chadwick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1913107434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913107437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Mellon Centre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Esther Chadwick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46602994942207,"sku":"9781913107437","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea777500-58a1-4e16-af57-c4b162c1fb93.jpg?v=1739695890","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-radical-print-esther-chadwick-9781913107437","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}