As one of Currier & Ives's leading artists, Frances (""Fanny"") Bond Palmer (1812-1876) was a major lithographer whose prints found their way into homes, schools, barns, taverns, business offices, yacht clubs, and elsewhere, reaching a mass audience during her day. Her life was a true American fable-the story of an immigrant who came to the United ......
European blockbooks-heavily illustrated books printed from woodblocks that contained both text and image-represent a brief but crucial experiment in book production, emerging alongside early typographic printing. Although short lived as a book medium, blockbooks illuminate the expanding demand for books and the experimental practices that shaped ......
Down in the Dirtchronicles more than fifty years of multidisciplinary artist Terry Allen's printmaking and visual storytelling. Rooted in West Texas yet reaching far beyond, Allen's work fuses image, text, music, and performance into layered narratives shaped by memory, geography, and personal mythologies. The book, anchored by the 2021-22 ......
This book examines the celebrated 17th-century Ming Dynasty woodblock handscroll, Garden Scene at Huancui Hall. Created around 1600 for the merchant-scholar Wang Tingna, the print served as both a portrait of his Huizhou estate and a sophisticated tool for literati social positioning (the circle included Tang Xianzu, the Chinese Shakespeare, and ......
The innovative countercultural movement from one of the most notable twentieth-century presses. In this long-awaited book, Rebecca Kosick chronicles the rise, work, and legacy of the Alternative Press, a grassroots art and poetry publishing initiative founded in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. Operated by Ken and Ann Mikolowski out of their home, the ......
This is the first biography of the renowned American Chicano visual artist and activist Rupert Garcia, drawing on fifty hours of interviews conducted over thirty years and accompanied by eighty images. This in-depth oral history gives an unparalleled look at Garcia's life and work, tracing his evolution as an artist and the political upheavals ......
The Formation of a Picture Culture in the United States
Explores how the widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a nineteenth-century US culture that was accustomed to printed and spoken words When and how did pictures start to permeate everyday lives in the United States? What happened to those daily lives when they did? And what happened to pictures in the process? In this full-color, heavily ......
Prints and the Shaping of Devotional Networks from Lima to the Andes and Beyond
A study of the production and movement of prints in colonial South America. Printed images have had a central place in art-historical studies of colonial Spanish America, but scholars have typically focused on imported prints, designed and produced in Europe. The Mobile Image focuses instead on works printed in colonial Lima, generating there a ......
