‎MAYOR (A. Hyatt)‎
‎Prints and people - A social history of printed pictures -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971, un volume in 4 relié en cartonnage éditeur + jaquette, 400pp., (environ), nombreuses illustrations dans le texte‎

Reference : 7765

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Why were prints made ? Who bought them ? How did print publishes attract new publics ? What printmakers discovered new ways of seeing ? In this book such questions and some of their answers begin almost with the invention of paper in China and extend across time and the wold to a consideration of the possibilities in printmaking today, this side of expressionism and abstraction. Besides evaluationg more than 700 prints as works of art, A. Hyatt Mayor's far from conventional account of the medium points out pricise effects of prints on leteracy, commerce, science, fashions, religion and political power - in short, it deals with prints'effects upon people, placing the art itself in the stream of life. In this it difffers from earlier histories that concentrate on artistic merit and bibliographic data but seem little aware of the significance of the exactly repeated image as a communications device..."**7765/Q5AR‎