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Nadar IV: Press graphics 1858 – 1905
The popular Salon caricatural-series “Nadar Jury”, which he created in collaboration with the history painter Alfred Darjou for Charles Philipon’s new cartoon magazine “Journal amusant”, reveals Nadar’s critical attachment to the contemporary art scene. In 1863 his enthusiasm for aerial photography got a setback when his giant balloon “Le Géant” crashed on a field near […]
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Deep Diving in the MePri (Internals)
High End Scan-Specialist Jürgen Seidel recently worked for weeks in the Institute´s collection to take pictures for a planned publication on the history of press graphics. Here are a few impressions:
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Henry James: Image & Text II
Not translated: Das Feature zu Henry James´ gesammelten Essays zur Illustrationskunst, die 1893 unter dem Titel Picture and Text im Verlag Harper & Brothers in New York erschienen sind, gibt ausschnitthaft und in collagierter Form einige Passagen aus der kommentierten deutschen Erstübersetzung wieder, die jetzt im Piet Meyer Verlag erschienen ist. Das Vorwort stammt von […]
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II Der zeitgenössische Holzstich in Nordamerika. [II Der zeitgenössische Holzstich in Nordamerika. von Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Kunstmuseum Boston 1887
Not translated: Der nachfolgende historische Beitrag von Sylvester Rosa Koehler wurde verfasst für Carl von Lützow´s Monumentalwerk „Der Holzschnitt der Gegenwart in Europa und Nord-Amerika“, Wien 1887. Koehler, geb. 1837 in Leipzig, war lange Zeit Chefkurator für Druckgrafik am Museum of Fine Arts in Boston und einer der wichtigsten amerikanischen Kunstschriftsteller des 19. Jhds. Sein […]
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I Double Indifference: Andy Warhol, the Tile Club and the New School
Not translated: Einleitung: Wie kein anderes Kulturlabel hat sich die Marke Andy Warhol als Inbegriff einer produktiven Symbiose von Kunst und Kommerz, von Gebrauchskunst und Kunstkunst durchgesetzt. Er hatte sich in seiner frühen Pittsburgher Studienjahren vor allem an den Arbeiten seines künstlerischen Idols, des amerikanischen Malers und Fotografen Ben Shahn orientiert. Der gemeinsame polnische Migrationshintergrund […]
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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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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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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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“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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“Confound the Line” – Photo-Graphics of the New School of Wood Engraving (Exhibition)
“With the new school nothing is theoretically impossible, and no means are illegitimate.” (Frederick Juengling, 1880) Wood engraving, actually a product of early English Romanticism, experienced its breakthrough with the rise of the illustrated press. Its phenomenal success owed to its hybridity, for it combined the fine mechanical quality of copper engraving with the advantages […]