9780300089325

Parallel Lines

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780300089325

Hardcover|9780300089325


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The nineteenth century was a remarkable period in art history during which the practices of painting, printmaking and photography intersected in new and unexpected ways. Massive changes in the technology of reproduction took place, and France in particular became a leading testing ground for new printing and photographic techniques. This abundantly illustrated book investigates for the first time the complex and lively interactions between painting, printmaking and photography in France during the 1800s. Cultural historian Stephen Bann explores why rising reproductive media did not supplant traditional modes and how, instead, printmakers, photographers and painters influenced and inspired each other's work, together creating a visual culture of unique richness and breadth. The book focuses especially on pictorial reproduction involving painting, printmaking and photography in combination. Bann includes in the discussion the interweaving careers of Ingres and such contemporary painters as Vernet and Delaroche, such printmakers as lithographer Nicolas Charlet and engraver Luigi Calamatta and such pioneering photographers as Niepce, Daguerre and Robert Bingham. Setting the nineteenth-

ISBN-13

9780300089325

ISBN-10

0300089325

Weight

2.45 Pounds

Dimensions

7.75 x 1.00 x 10.20 In

List Price

$60.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

264 pages

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published On

2001-07-11



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