Prints & people : a social history of printed pictures /
Discusses the significance and history of printmaking and evaluates 700 prints.
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[New York]
Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society
©1971.
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Table of Contents:
- The Chinese invent paper
- The oldest European woodcuts
- The first dated prints
- Holy pictures
- Playing cards and others
- The first printed books
- The Bible of the poor
- The art of dying
- Printing breaks away from manuscript
- Printers' shortcuts
- Illustrated books in Augsburg
- Illustrated books in Ulm
- Woodcutters' distortions
- Venice observed
- Personal styles emerge
- Netherlandish illustrations
- Parisian illustrations
- Illustrating Virgil
- Italian painters and woodcutters
- Prophets and sibyls in Rome
- Contrast of temperaments
- Ratdolt
- Bookplates
- Almanacs for wall and pocket
- Prints for pasting
- Aesop
- Herbals and scientific illustration
- Engineering illustrated
- The beginnings of engraving
- Dotted prints
- The master of the playing cards
- Master ES
- The housebook master and drypoint
- Schongauer
- Early Netherlandish engravers
- Van Meckenem
- Florentine engraving
- The triumphs of Petrarch and Maximilian
- Dante
- Savonarola
- Florentine woodcut illustration
- Business books
- Lettering and writing
- Perspective
- Maps
- Copyright and patronage
- Anatomy in Florence
- Mantegna
- Caricature
- Hawkers and walkers
- Book covers
- Title page and frontispiece
- Milanese woodcuts
- Full tide in Venice
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
- Giorgione's twilight
- Etching and aquatint
- Gods and personifications
- Illustrations for architects
- Grotesque ornament
- Books of hours
- Royal progresses
- Dürer's four horsemen
- Dürer in Italy
- Dürer's print styles
- Dürer's figures
- Portrait engraving
- Burgkmair and the emperor
- Cranach
- Aldorfer
- Baldung and Weiditz
- The German little masters
- Figure-drawing books
- Holbein
- Lucas of Leiden
- Marcantonio
- Marcantonio's workshop
- Imitations of drawings
- Color printing
- Parmigiano
- The Fontainebleau school
- Duvet
- Cousin
- Pleasure gardens
- Eternal Rome
- Printselling in Antwerp and London
- For needle and bobbin
- Man's variety
- Furniture designs
- Anatomy becomes a science
- Artists as block-cutters
- Titian
- Engraving standardized
- Least woodcut books
- Jewelry designs
- Northern mannerists
- Brueghel
- Rubens
- Van Dyck
- Barocci
- Twilight's gradual veil
- How-to-do-it manuals
- Children's books
- Bellange
- Callot
- Life in France
- Dutch etchers before Rembrandt
- Rembrandt's portraits
- Rembrandt's techniques
- Rembrandt and the Bible
- Rembrandt and Italy
- Rembrandt's figures
- Rembrandt's landscapes
- Rembrandt's contemporaries
- Mezzotint
- Central Italian etchers
- Italy and Rembrandt
- Landscape
- Art exhibitions
- Interior decorations
- Stage scenery
- The copyrighted picture story
- Trade catalogues
- 18th-century books
- Rococo and classicism in Germany
- Wallpaper
- On cloth, china, and enamel
- Venetian and Roman printmakers
- G.B. Tiepolo and Piranesi
- Watteau and Boucher
- Etching in France and Switzerland
- The estampe galante
- Rowlandson and Debucourt
- English romantics
- Early lithography
- Géricault and Delacroix
- Goya
- 19th-century Germans
- Banknotes
- A quarter turn of the wood
- Posters
- Girtin and Turner
- Folk prints
- Photography
- Daumier
- Lami and Gavarni
- Artists' colonies
- Late French romantics
- Manet and Fattori
- Degas and Cassatt
- Illustration in the English-speaking 1860s
- Light from the East
- Meryon and Whistler
- The line block
- Toulouse-Lautrec
- Gauguin and Munch
- International virtuosos
- Prints by French sculptors and painters
- Villon
- Matisse
- Picasso
- The expressionists
- The American scene
- The world within.