Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking : Critical Writing Since 1986.

Front matter -- Frontispiece -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- A note on sources and copyright materials -- Introduction -- Part I: Genealogy -- Introduction to Part I -- Fragments for an art history of media: electr(on)ic thinking -- The technical gaze: the parallel world of photography -- Post-print culture? -- Part I Further reading -- Part II: Debates -- Introduction to Part II -- The syntax of the print: in search of an aesthetic context -- Sentences on printed art -- The re-vision of printmaking -- The shape of graphic art -- The graphic unconscious or the how and why of a print triennial -- Print as other: the future is queer -- The what and the why of print -- Part II Further reading -- Part III: Keywords -- Introduction to Part III -- Coordinates of a history of the technical image -- The status of the reproduction -- Benjamin's blindspot: aura and reproduction in the post-print age -- Are all multiples the same? The problematic nature of the limited edition -- Printing plates and pixel matrix: the mechanisation of memory -- Opening up an anachronistic point of view (1997) -- Untying the knot: memory and forgetting in contemporary print work -- Spirit duplication -- Three ways to use yellow -- On the manual (in the manual) -- Animal print suicide -- Part III Further reading -- Part IV: The field -- Introduction to Part IV -- Edinburgh Printmakers and the notion of the workshop -- Projects and portfolios: narrative and structure -- Lasting impressions? A museum perspective on digital fine art printmaking -- Print and the public sphere -- The work event: art in the distributed field and systems of production -- All the instruments agree -- Stamping (molding) marks: the San Juan Triennial tracking the new century -- Chinese printmaking in the twenty-first century: new horizons and energies.

What is 'studio' in the post-disciplinary age? -- Making a place: art and a multi-modal, multi-disciplinary approach -- Failures, irritations and grief in printing: in search of Manly Banister, an excerpt from an unpublishable memoir -- Part IV Further reading -- Index.

The anthology provides a critical topography of printmaking since the mid-1980s. Its texts, by well-known authors as well as 'insiders', span different formats and critical and theoretical approaches.

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