ARTH 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Printmaking, Jean Baudrillard, Mezzotint
Document Summary
Joseph monteyne, paining, the print on display, and the paragone . Conlict bet. paining & print in collier"s images late 17th - early 18th century version of the renaissance paragone. Form + content of collier"s art directly address objects of print culture; paradoxically, he tried to render invisible the producers of his own source material by signing mezzoints/engravings within the painings. Screen: operates as mediator, ofering cultural repertoire of images that subjects align themselves with in the process of idenity formaion; confusion bet. inanimate object & animate subject. Prining words from movable type a process of reproducion without transformaion; Prining image transforms the original design, and consequently twice removed fr. the visual reality. Development of printmaking in 15th century in northern europe coincides w/ increasing importance of 2d arts in general, esp. paining. Based on opical, not tacile experience; began to succeed sculpture as form of visual communicaion (eg. altarpieces in netherlands fr.
