Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95

by Wye, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780870701245
• ISBN10: 087070124X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

From Barbara Kruger's screenprinted feminist billboards to Felix Gonzalez-Torres's stacks of posters featuring head shots of people killed by guns; from Elizabeth Murray's colorful abstract lithographs to Anselm Kiefer's woodcuts embedded in Germany history; from Lucian Freud's moody figure study etchings to Donald Judd's rigid, monochromatic, serially geometric woodcuts--Thinking Printis a broad, ambitious, and varied survey of printed art from the last two decades . Exploring the role of prints, deluxe illustrated books, inexpensive artist's books, and editioned multiples in contemporary art, this exceptionally comprehensive volume covers 235 works by some 147 artists, and includes essays on techniques, formats, and themes, as well as biographic notes on all of the artists and publishers. Originally published on the occasion of a 1996 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(1)
Preface	7	(1)
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980--95. Introduction	8	(3)
Contemporary Printmaking	11	(25)
Techniques and Formats	36	(46)
Themes	82	(42)
Checklist of the Exhibition	124	(11)
Notes on the Artists	135	(13)
Notes on the Publishers	148	(8)
Selected Bibliography	156	(1)
Index	157	(2)
Photograph Credits	159	(1)
Acknowledgments	160