Main entry:

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

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1980, ©1971.

Description:

approximately 450 pages : 752 illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Notes:
Includes index.
Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971.
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 -- Printer's shortcuts -- Illustrated books in Augsburg -- Illustrated books in Ulm -- Woodcutter's 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 -- Altdorfer -- 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 -- Last 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 decoration -- 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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0691003262 (pbk.)
9780691003269 (pbk.)
0870991086
9780870991080

Subject:

Prints History.
Art and society.
Estampe Histoire.
Art et société.
Prints.
Grafik
Sozialgeschichte
Art Aspect social.
Geschichte

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Princeton paperbacks.

Social history of printed pictures
Prints and people

Holdings:

Location: Library prints and drawings office 139080
Call No.: PO1299 PD; ID:87-B17088
Status: Available