A landmark publication-beautifully illustrated with over 300 prints from the British Museum's renowned collection-which traces the history of printmaking from its earliest days until the arrival of photography.
Between 1991 and 2010, Antony Griffiths was deputy keeper, then keeper, of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. In 1984 he co-founded Print Quarterly, a journal dedicated to the art of the print. He was appointed a fellow of the British Academy in 2000. He has published widely on the subject.
"The sheer amount of information on offer here, conveyed in such a
lucidly written and lavishly illustrated book, marks this as a
pinnacle of print studies."--Sheila McTighe (11/1/2016 12:00:00
AM)
"While dealing in appropriately dry fashion with all the
intricacies of production, trade and patronage, Griffiths manages
to make the reader look harder at the materiality of the fine art
engraving, its strange otherness as if it were a branch of
sculpture rather than drawing. His magnificent book brings to an
end the output of the British Museum Press, here concluding, like
many a fine symphony, with a triumphant flourish."--Tom Phillips
(9/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)
Antony Griffiths, who was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the
British Museum for 20 years from 1991 to 2011, has done something
wholly admirable. After retiring and alongside delivering the Slade
Lectures in Oxford, he sat down and has written an absolutely
definitive book about the history of printmaking in Western Europe
from its beginnings to the time that it began to be overtaken by
other technologies, including lithography and photography.--Charles
Saumarez Smith
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