Research Catalog

Title

Prints & people : a social history of printed pictures / A. Hyatt Mayor.

Author

Mayor, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1901-1980.

Publication

[New York] : Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, ©1971.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Oldenburg, Peter, 1916-1990
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : 752 illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

Discusses the significance and history of printmaking and evaluates 700 prints.

Subjects

• Art and society
• History
• Prints > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Designed by Peter Oldenburg.
• Rare Book AIGA copy: In original dust jacket.

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.

ISBN

• 0870991086
• 9780870991080
• 0691039585
• 9780691039589

LCCN

73162341

OCLC

• ocm00226680
• 226680

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries