Prints and Visual Communication
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| - | [[William Mills Ivins, Jr.]] best-known book is ''[[Prints and Visual Communication]]'' ([[MIT Press]], 1969, ISBN 0-262-59002-6 (first published [[1953]] by [[Harvard University Press]])). | ||
| + | ''[[Prints and Visual Communication]]'' is a book on [[visual communication]] and [[print culture]] by | ||
| + | [[William Ivins, Jr.]], first published in [[1953]]. | ||
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| + | :"The sophistication of the photographic process has had two dramatic results--freeing the artist from the confines of [[description|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. | ||
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| + | :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 [[William Fox Talbot|Talbot]]'s discovery of the negative-positive photographic process and its far reaching consequences." | ||
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| + | == Bibliographic details == | ||
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| + | ''[[Prints and Visual Communication]]'' ([[MIT Press]], 1969, ISBN 0-262-59002-6 (first published [[1953]] by [[Harvard University Press]])). | ||
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| - | *[[Visual communication]] | + | :''[[visual culture]], [[print culture]]'' |
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Prints and Visual Communication is a book on visual communication and print culture by William Ivins, Jr., first published in 1953.
From its current publisher:
- "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."
Bibliographic details
Prints and Visual Communication (MIT Press, 1969, ISBN 0-262-59002-6 (first published 1953 by Harvard University Press)).
See also
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