Parallel lines : printmakers, painters, and photographers in nineteenth-century France / Stephen Bann.

Main entry:

Bann, Stephen.

Title & Author:

Parallel lines : printmakers, painters, and photographers in nineteenth-century France / Stephen Bann.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 254 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
In the age of reproduction -- Battles in paint and print -- The inventions of photography -- Strangers in Paris -- The full circle

Summary:

"The nineteenth century was a remarkable period in art history during which the practices of painting, printmaking and photography intersected in new and unexpected ways. Massive changes in the technology of reproduction took place, and France in particular became a leading testing ground for new printing and photographic techniques. This illustrated book investigates for the first time the complex and lively interactions between painting, print-making and photography in France during the 1800s. Cultural historian Stephen Bann explores why rising reproductive media did not supplant traditional modes and how, instead, printmakers, photographers and painters influenced and inspired each other's work, together creating a visual culture of unique richness and breadth."
"The book focuses especially on pictorial reproduction involving painting, printmaking and photography in combination. Bann includes in the discussion the interweaving careers of Ingres and such contemporary painters as Vernet and Delaroche, such printmakers as lithographer Nicolas Charlet and engraver Luigi Calamatta and such pioneering photographers as Niepce, Daguerre and Robert Bingham. Setting the nineteenth-century issues of reproduction in the context of art history and theory, Bann also offers insights into the nature of art reproduction in our own era of radically changing reproduction technology."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300089325 (cloth)
9780300089325 (cloth)

Subject:

Prints, French 19th century.
Painting Study and teaching France History.
Photography France History 19th century.
Estampes françaises 19e siècle.
Peinture Étude et enseignement France Histoire.
Photographie France Histoire 19e siècle.
Estampe française 19e siècle.
Painting Study and teaching
Photography
Prints, French
Fotografie
Vergleich
Buchdruck
Presse
Malerei
Schilderkunst.
Grafische kunst.
Wisselwerking.
France
Frankreich

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217962
Call No.: NE647.3 .B3 2001
Status: Available

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