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 44m
About this audiobook
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 44 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
8INTRODUCTION TO SECOND EDITION
9APPENDIX
10Engraving for Illustration: Historical and Practical Notes
11PREFACE
12CHAPTER V
13CHAPTER VIII
14John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut
15John Baptist Jackson:
16CATALOG
17The Chiaroscuros and Color Woodcuts of John Baptist Jackson
18Prints and their makers
19Prints and their makers
20DÜRER’S WOODCUTS
21SOME EARLY ITALIAN ENGRAVERS BEFORE THE TIME OF MARCANTONIO
22A PRINCE OF PRINT-COLLECTORS: MICHEL DE MAROLLES, ABBÉ DE VILLELOIN (1600-1681)
23JEAN MORIN
24ROBERT NANTEUIL
25REMBRANDT’S LANDSCAPE ETCHINGS
26GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI
27FRANCISCO GOYA Y LUCIENTES
28A NOTE ON GOYA
29THE ETCHINGS OF FORTUNY
30PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SIR SEYMOUR HADEN, P.R.E.
31THE WATER-COLORS AND DRAWINGS OF SIR SEYMOUR HADEN, P.R.E.
32MERYON AND BAUDELAIRE
33FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND: AN ETCHER OF BIRDS
34AUGUSTE LEPÈRE
35HERMAN A. WEBSTER
36ANDERS ZORN—PAINTER-ETCHER
37Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c
38CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
39CHAPTER II “THE MARQUIS OF STEYNE”
40CHAPTER III THE SUPPRESSED PORTRAIT OF DICKENS, “PICKWICK,” “THE BATTLE OF LIFE,” AND GRIMALDI
41CHAPTER IV DICKENS CANCELLED PLATES: “OLIVER TWIST,” “MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT,” “THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN,” “PICTURES FROM ITALY,” AND “SKETCHES BY BOZ.”
42CHAPTER V ON SOME FURTHER SUPPRESSED PLATES, ETCHINGS, AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
43CHAPTER VI HOGARTH’S “ENTHUSIASM DELINEATED,” “THE MAN OF TASTE,” AND “DON QUIXOTE”
44CHAPTER VII CANCELLED DESIGNS FOR PUNCH AND ONCE A WEEK
45CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS
46CHAPTER IX THE SUPPRESSED OMAR KHAYYAM ETCHING
47CHAPTER X ADAPTED OR PALIMPSEST PLATES
48CHAPTER XI ADAPTED OR PALIMPSEST PLATES (continued).
49The Etchings of Charles Meryon
50PREFACE
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