Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America / Joann Moser

Identifier:REF.EC.2009

Dimensions:x, 212 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Copyright dates:1997

Subjects: Printing -- Exhibitions., Printing -- United States -- History., monotype

Description:Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, and presented from April 4 to August 3, 1997. "The first comprehensive survey of the monotype in America, Singular Impressions discusses the work of more than one hundred artists who, attracted by the medium's intimacy and freedom, made prints ranging from the romantic, pastoral landscapes of Bostonian Charles Alvah Walker to the Savarin-can "self-portraits" of Jasper Johns. ...Describing how artists invented new methods and variations on the basic process, Joann Moser analyzes the role of monotype in the "Black and White" exhibitions of New York's Salmagundi Club, at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, and in 1920 artists' communities from Provincetown to Taos."--back cover Table of Contents: 1. American Artists at Home and Abroad -- 2. Color Prints and Printed Sketches -- 3. The Emergence of the Monotype -- 4. The Contemporary Monotype Phenomenon. Includes bibliography and index.