Print Media Insights: 8 Books to Deepen Your Understanding
Essays on Engraving, Illustration, Book Arts, Collecting, and Print CultureBy Jacob Kainen, R. J. Beedham, Joseph Kirkbride, George Somes Layard, Campbell Dodgson, Joseph Cundall, Emil H. Richter
Length27h 32m
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Print Media Insights: 8 Books to Deepen Your Understanding surveys the intellectual and material life of print through a compact but suggestive range of bibliographical, critical, historical, and connoisseurial writing. Its selections move between the printed page as artifact, the reproductive image as aesthetic object, and the institutions that preserve, circulate, and interpret both. Descriptive scholarship, archival inquiry, and lucid cultural criticism coexist here, making the volume a useful introduction to the varied languages through which print has been understood. The contributors—Jacob Kainen, R. J. Beedham, Joseph Kirkbride, George Somes Layard, Campbell Dodgson, Joseph Cundall, and Emil H. Richter—represent interconnected traditions of print history, collecting, engraving, museum practice, and bibliographic description. Their perspectives evoke the nineteenth- and twentieth-century growth of art-historical and curatorial attention to graphic arts, while also revealing how questions of technique, authorship, edition, and transmission shape cultural memory. Read together, these voices position print media at the meeting point of artistic labor, scholarship, and public access. Recommended for students, collectors, researchers, and general readers, this anthology offers an unusually concentrated opportunity to compare methods and assumptions across the study of printed culture. Its breadth encourages readers to treat books and prints not merely as texts or images, but as historical encounters sustained by makers, readers, and institutions.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length27 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Portraits of Poets: 4 Classic Books on Influential Poets
2A Brief History of Wood-engraving From Its Invention
3A BRIEF HISTORY
4CHAPTER IV
5CHAPTER VII
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6CHAPTER XI
7Wood Engraving
8Wood Engraving
9INTRODUCTION TO SECOND EDITION
10APPENDIX
11Engraving for Illustration: Historical and Practical Notes
12PREFACE
13CHAPTER V
14CHAPTER VIII
15John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut
16John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut
17John Baptist Jackson:
18CATALOG
19The Chiaroscuros and Color Woodcuts of John Baptist Jackson
20Prints and their makers
21Prints and their makers
22DÜRER’S WOODCUTS
23SOME EARLY ITALIAN ENGRAVERS BEFORE THE TIME OF MARCANTONIO
24A PRINCE OF PRINT-COLLECTORS: MICHEL DE MAROLLES, ABBÉ DE VILLELOIN (1600-1681)
25JEAN MORIN
26ROBERT NANTEUIL
27REMBRANDT’S LANDSCAPE ETCHINGS
28GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI
29FRANCISCO GOYA Y LUCIENTES
30A NOTE ON GOYA
31THE ETCHINGS OF FORTUNY
32PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SIR SEYMOUR HADEN, P.R.E.
33THE WATER-COLORS AND DRAWINGS OF SIR SEYMOUR HADEN, P.R.E.
34MERYON AND BAUDELAIRE
35FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND: AN ETCHER OF BIRDS
36AUGUSTE LEPÈRE
37HERMAN A. WEBSTER
38ANDERS ZORN—PAINTER-ETCHER
39Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c
40CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
41CHAPTER II “THE MARQUIS OF STEYNE”
42CHAPTER III THE SUPPRESSED PORTRAIT OF DICKENS, “PICKWICK,” “THE BATTLE OF LIFE,” AND GRIMALDI
43CHAPTER IV DICKENS CANCELLED PLATES: “OLIVER TWIST,” “MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT,” “THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN,” “PICTURES FROM ITALY,” AND “SKETCHES BY BOZ.”
44CHAPTER V ON SOME FURTHER SUPPRESSED PLATES, ETCHINGS, AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
45CHAPTER VI HOGARTH’S “ENTHUSIASM DELINEATED,” “THE MAN OF TASTE,” AND “DON QUIXOTE”
46CHAPTER VII CANCELLED DESIGNS FOR PUNCH AND ONCE A WEEK
47CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS
48CHAPTER IX THE SUPPRESSED OMAR KHAYYAM ETCHING
49CHAPTER X ADAPTED OR PALIMPSEST PLATES
50CHAPTER XI ADAPTED OR PALIMPSEST PLATES (continued).
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