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Radical Reproduction Graphics. The Counter-Halftone-Offensive of the Stuttgart School. An interview with the woodengraver Rudolf Rieß
Summary of an interview with the xylographer Rudolf Rieß who was born in Nuremberg in 1935. The interview was conducted on 01/18 and 01/19/2013 during a xylographic workshop of the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design in Bodman. Rudolf Rieß is the last practicing xylographer who learnt the craft of xylography as a skilled […]
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Comics & Journalism – Witnessing the world with pen & paper
Reportage Drawing, Graphic Journalism, Observational Cartooning and Documentary Illustration: all these terms are used to describe journalistic projects where the comic or graphic artist acts as reporter. Each of these names refers to specific angles and techniques, but what they have in common is their simplicity: the world reduced to lines on paper. Before the […]
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Porter / Re-porter: Blake revisited (Exhibition)
In the exhibition Porter/Re-porter, on view from 4 May to 22 September in the frame of “Cube. Sparda Art Award” at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Alexander Roob combines materials from the collection of the Melton Prior Institute with works of his own, including a longer excerpt from the eponymous CS drawing series created in London in […]
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Henri Durand-Brager, Special artist of Bonapartism
“The eyes of the world are upon us! … Misfortune has its heroism and its fame.” (Napoleon Bonaparte, St. Helena, Nov. 1815) “The Napoleonic idea broke forth from St. Helena like the moral doctrine of the Gospel, which had risen, certain of victory, from the agonies of the Calvary.” (Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, L´Idée Napoléonienne, 1840) In […]
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Drawn by Light. Camille Corot and his `cliché-verre´ experiments
Cliché-verre is an ambivalent thing, an inanity, the zero point in the graphic arts of the second half of the 19th century, to cite the opinion of Roland Barthes.(1) The wide variety of terms used to describe this phenomenon in itself speaks volumes: “dessin sur verre pour photographie”, “photogenic drawing”, “dessin héliographique”, “Hyalographie” (glass print), […]
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Unter Wölfen – Zweierlei Naturrepräsentation. Julia Schmid im Kunstmuseum Bonn (Ausstellungsbesprechung von Rolf Bier)
Not translated: Julia Schmid (*1969) ist mit hyper- oder gar metarealistischen Bildern von Pflanzensammlungen bekannt geworden, die sie an oft eher unscheinbaren Orten ihres jeweiligen Aufenthalts vornimmt und dabei keinen Unterschied zwischen Unkraut und Blume macht, – in Kleingärten (Hannover 2002), auf Spaziergängen in der Stadt (New York 2004-05), auf Straßenabschnitten (Hannover 2008, Braunschweig 2010) oder Plätzen (Rudolfsplatz […]
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“Vogelmen Diaries” – Exhibition film and related archive articles (Melton Prior Institute im Heidelberger Kunstverein, 17.11.2012 – 27.1.2013)
Exhibition Film. Click on the image to play. . Fletcher DuBois performs the “Vogelmen Diaries” at the opening. Main Hall, Southern Wall: Thomas Nast, “Our System of Feathering Nests ..” Main Hall, Northern Wall: Thomas Nast, “Let Us Prey!” > Faits Divers – Illustrations: Crashes and Collapses > Thomas Nast: “Dead Men´s Clothes Soon Wear […]
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Nasty “Walled Street Safe” – Campaign (Thomas Nast, Once A Week, 1891)
Thomas Nast, Once A Week, December, 22, 1891
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Vogelmen Diaries – Melton Prior Institut presents “special artists” (Exhibition)
Mit „Vogelmen Diaries” wird erstmalig die breite Forschungsarbeit des Melton Prior Instituts auf dem Gebiet der Reportagezeichnung im Rahmen einer Ausstellung vorgestellt. Zentrales Thema ist das zukunftsweisende künstlerische Selbstverständnis vieler früher Pressegrafiker. Die multiplen Rollen, die sie einnahmen, changierten zwischen nüchterner grafischer Berichterstattung, karikaturesker Polemik und fiktionaler Illustrationskunst. Viele waren auch, wie z.b. der einflussreiche […]
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Thomas Nast & Theodor Kaufmann: Higher Forms of Hieroglyph
I Thomas Nast The pictorial journalism of Thomas Nast marked the peak of graphic art as far as its influence and popularity in the 19th century is concerned. No artist was ever more successful in regard to the intensity, scope and lastingness of his political impact than this North American draughtsman – not Dürer, not […]