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Impressions of the 20th Century Margaret Timmers

Impressions of the 20th Century By Margaret Timmers

Impressions of the 20th Century by Margaret Timmers


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Summary

Drawing on the V&A's magnificent collection of twentieth-century prints, this concise history of printmaking is presented through the work of internationally renowned artists - all of whom relished the print medium as an important form of expression - with every year of the 20th century represented by a print of set of prints.

Impressions of the 20th Century Summary

Impressions of the 20th Century: Fine Art Prints from the V&A's Collection by Margaret Timmers

From the first half of the twentieth-century, early British masters of etching such as Walter Sickert and Augustus John are included, while Paul Nash and Eric Gill exemplify the 1920's to 1930's fashion for woodblock-printing. Works from Picasso, Matisse, Vuillard and Chagall sit alongside prints from German artists Paul Klee and Franz Marc. After the Second World War the scale and ambition of lithographs and screen-prints began to rival contemporary paintings. All the key American exponents, such as Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Roy Lictenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Ron Kitaj are represented, while in Britain artists like Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Eduoardo Paolozzi and Patrick Caulfield were pushing forward the boundaries of the fine art print. This book explores the ever-increasing diversity of print-making - whether crossing over into installation art or incorporating the human body as both image and tool - and challenges our notion of what constitutes a fine art print, posing intriguing questions as to how the medium might develop in the future.

Impressions of the 20th Century Reviews

'Timmers' enthusiasm is contagious ... this is a jewel of a book' Antiques Magazine

About Margaret Timmers

Margaret Timmers is Head of Prints Section in the Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings at the V&A. She curated the V&A exhibition The Power of the Poster (1998), and edited the award-winning accompanying publication of the same name (V&A, 1998).

Additional information

GOR005995748
9781851773503
1851773509
Impressions of the 20th Century: Fine Art Prints from the V&A's Collection by Margaret Timmers
Used - Very Good
Paperback
V & A Publishing
2001-09-28
176
N/A
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