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Art or Craft. William James Linton vs. William Morris. A posthumous dispute.
The MePri Collection holds a wondrous scrapbook on wood engraving, affectionately combined and carefully lettered. The object was offered by a seller of autographs and announced as follows: “An autographed letter by William James Linton signed, to William Abercrombie, discussing his books, saying there is no large paper copy of the Hints. [on Wood-Engraving]. Tipped […]
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Social Credit & Direct Democracy – William James Linton: “The English Republic”. London / Brantwood, 1850-55
Lintoniana I “We are Utopians, theorists, dreamers, enthusiasts, fanatics, madmen, in a word, we are republicans.” W.J. Linton, 1850 In December 1850, almost two years after the revolutionary hopes of a democratic change had been buried Europe-wide under a mantle of resignation and depression, radical artisan William James Linton began to proclaim his forceful vision […]
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Album of landscapes from the theatre of war (1870), Berlin – Hamburg, 1871
The portfolio with a total of thirty-six large-format depictions of abandoned battlefields of the Prussian-French War was published in autumn 1871, approximately half a year after the French surrender. It was printed in four of Germany’s leading lithographic establishments, including W. Korn & Co. in Berlin and Charles Fuchs in Hamburg. The refinement of the […]
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BREMERHAVEN – NEW YORK (MELTON PRIOR EDITION )
Now available: Our first edition of artists’ prints published by Melton Prior Institute for Reportage Drawing, Düsseldorf, in collaboration with Kunstverein Bremerhaven e.V. Luis Camnitzer, New York Bogdan Hoffmann, Bremen Birgit Jensen, Düsseldorf Ben Katchor, New York Stephan Mörsch, Berlin Alexander Roob, Düsseldorf Dierk Schmidt, Berlin Paul Schwer, Düsseldorf Andreas Siekmann, Berlin Susan Turcot, Toronto […]
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Original Drawings and Print Versions in the MePri – Collections # I , 1812 – 1902
Drawings by Albrecht Adam, Hubert von Herkomer, Frederic Theodore Lix, William Simpson, Melton Prior, Joseph Pennell and their representations in the Pictorial Press.
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Van Goghs Favorites II: Hubert Herkomer and the School of English Social Realism
“There is something virile in it – something rugged – which attracts me strongly (…) In all these fellows I see an energy, a determination and a free, healthy, cheerful spirit that animate me. And in their work there is something lofty and dignified – even when they draw a dunghill.” Vincent van Gogh, October […]
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Van Goghs Favorites I: Xylographism unbound – The influence of illustrated journal graphics on the art of Vincent van Gogh.
Only in recent years has one gained the insight that Vincent van Gogh was not only a collector of Japanese graphic prints, like many of his artist colleagues, but was also imbued by a passion for the pictorial art of illustrated journals of his times. This was mainly thanks to two exhibitions: One, in spring […]
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On Luis Camnitzer’s etching cycles, especially “Agent Orange “(1983-84)
At the end of the 1960s, the Uruguayan sculptor, graphic artist and art critic Luis Camnitzer (born 1937 in Lübeck), living in exile in America, founded the New York Graphic Workshop together with his colleagues Liliana Porter and José Guillermo Castillo. The aim of this venture was to remove the aura of elitism from artistic […]
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Printmaking: A Colony of the Arts
When I refer to colony, I mean it quite literally: as a territory taken over by another power, where identity is maimed and slowly forgotten, values are shifted and the will for independence becomes ritualized into an increasingly empty and hopeless vow. When I arrived in New York in 1964 I shared a studio with […]
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Photoetching technique (A Manual)
1) I prepare transparencies. These can be made by drawing on a clear plastic sheet, using traditional photographic techniques and enlarging on orthochromatic film, or by drawing on the computer or scanning and printing on clear plastic sheets. When registration of images is needed, printing is better done on an ink jet printer. Laser printers […]