Screen LibraryAquatint : from its origins to Goya /
"Driven by a growing interest in collecting and multiplying drawings, artists and amateurs in the eighteenth century sought a new technique capable of replicating the subtlety of ink, wash, and watercolor. They devised an innovative and versatile new medium--aquatint--which would spread in use...
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National Gallery of Art ; In association with Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, DC : Princeton, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Driven by a growing interest in collecting and multiplying drawings, artists and amateurs in the eighteenth century sought a new technique capable of replicating the subtlety of ink, wash, and watercolor. They devised an innovative and versatile new medium--aquatint--which would spread in use across Europe within a few decades, its distinctive dark tones making possible a remarkable variety of ingenious imagery. In this illuminating book, Rena M. Hoisington traces how the aquatint technique flourished as a cross-cultural and cosmopolitan phenomenon that contributed to the rise of art publishing, connoisseurship, leisure travel, drawing instruction, and the popularity of neoclassicism. She offers new insights into sophisticated experiments by artists such as Francisco Goya, Maria Catharina Prestel, Paul Sandby, and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Marvelously illustrated with rare works from the National Gallery of Art's collection of early aquatints, this engaging book provides a fresh look at how printmaking contributed to a vibrant exchange of information and ideas in Europe during the Enlightenment. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC October 24, 2021-February 21, 2022" -- |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimile ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691229799 0691229791 |
| Index Number: | NE2230 |
| CLC: | J237-28 |
| Call Number: | J237-28/H719 |
| Contents: |
Aquatint and the less painful birth of the art book -- Jean-Baptiste le Prince, the first aquatint celebrity -- The "poor scribbles" of amateur Abbé de Saint-Non -- Paul Sandby and the secret of aquatint reinvented in England -- Giovanni David's aquatinted tour of the Veneto -- The Prestels' pursuit of the ultimate drawing facsimile -- Jean-Jacques Lagrenée II and the antique style -- Francis Jukes and the professionalization of aquatint in England -- Alexander Cozens and the extensive capacity of blots for teaching drawing -- Francisco Goya and the transformative power of aquatint -- CODA. |