| Printed Images by Australian Artists, 1885-1955 Contributor(s): Butler, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 064254204X ISBN-13: 9780642542045 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2008 Annotation: This volume follows printmaking through a seventy-year period, from the latter part of the ninteenth century as the print, freed from its reproductive bonds, became a vehicle for pure artistic expression; through the great social and political traumas of the first half of the twentieth century, when the print was co-opted to carry a political message; and concludes in the immediate postwar years with prints that signal the artists' seach for meaning and an awareness of self. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | Graphic Arts - General |
| Dewey: 760.099 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 9.6" W x 11.5" (5.30 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume follows printmaking through a seventy-year period, from the latter part of the ninteenth century as the print, freed from its reproductive bonds, became a vehicle for pure artistic expression; through the great social and political traumas of the first half of the twentieth century, when the print was co-opted to carry a political message; and concludes in the immediate postwar years with prints that signal the artists' seach for meaning and an awareness of self. |