More Than A Generation Before The Invention Of Gutenberg’s Celebrated Press, The New Technology Of Image Printing Emerged. In This Book, A Distinguished Group Of Scholars Treats The Earliest Manifestations Of Printing In All Aspects: Technical Experimentation, The Complex Relation Of Printed Books To Printed Images, Individual And Institutional Patronage, New Iconographies, Religious Propaganda, And The Wide Variety Of Private And Public Ways In Which Printed Images Were First Employed. The Essays Examine The Technological, Social, Political, Religious, Personal, And Institutional Contexts Of 15th-century Woodcuts And Challenge Many Assumptions About The Phenomenon Of Early Printing, Including The Beginnings Of Printing On Cloth, The Significance Of Monastic Production, The Development Of Book Printing And Book Illustration, And The Extent To Which Printing Can Or Should Be Termed A 'revolution.'-- Introduction: The Modern Historiography Of Early Printmaking / Peter Parshall -- Picturing Oedipus In The Sion Textile / Teresa K. Nevins -- Prints In The Early Printing Shops / Paul Needham -- Woodcuts For Reading: The Codicology Of Fifteenth-century Blockbooks And Woodcut Cycles / Nigel F. Palmer -- Multiplying The Sacred: The Fifteenth-century Woodcut As Reproduction, Surrogate, Simulation / David. S. Areford -- In Gebeden Vnd In Bilden Geschriben: Prints As Exemplars Of Piety And The Culture Of The Copy In Fifteenth-century Germany / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- Two Anti-jewish Broadsides From The Late Fifteenth Century / Christine Magin And Falk Eisermann -- A Fifteenth-century Picture Panel From The Dominican Monastery Of Saint Catherine In Nuremberg / Richard Field -- The Early Print And The Origins Of The Picture Postcard / Peter Schmidt -- Convents As Patrons And Procedures Of Woodcuts In The Low Countries Around 1500 / Ursula Weekes -- The Pigments On Hand-colored Fifteenth-century Relief Prints From The Collections Of The National Gallery Of Art And The Germanisches Nationalmuseum / Shelley Fletcher, Lisha Glinsman, And Doris Oltrogge -- Illuminating The Print: The Use Of Color In Fifteenth-century Prints And Book Illumination / Doris Oltrogge -- Flock Prints And Paste Prints: A Technological Approach / Alexandra Scheld And Roland Damm . Edited By Peter Parshall. Proceedings Of The Symposium 'the Woodcut In Fifteenth-century Europe,' Organized By The Center For Advanced Study In The Visual Arts, National Gallery Of Art, And Sponsored By The Samuel H. Kress Foundation In Honor Of Franklin D. Murphy. The Symposium Was Held November 18-19, 2005, In Washington, D.c.--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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