A survey of the history of lithography which spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and includes such important artists as Goya, Delacroix, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Kokoschka, the German Impressionists, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Chagall, Rauschenberg and the "Pop" artists. This comprehensive work gives a thorough and illuminating account of lithography, tracing its origin beyond its generally accepted inventor, Alois Senefelder of Munich, to the German stone etchings of the sixteenth century. -- from the front flap
Table of Contents:
Preface --
Introduction --
Photography as a Graphic Technique --
Senefelder's Use of his Invention --
The First Artist-Lithographers in Germany --
Johann Christian von Mannlich --
Early Lithographic Printing Establishments --
Lithography in France --
Gericault and Delacroix --
Honore Daumier --
The Lithographs of Francisco de Goya --
The Numerous Uses of the Medium --
Chromolithography --
Lithography and Photography --
A New Lease of Life for Lithography --
Artist's Lithographs at the End of the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Century --
Edvard Munch --
Original Lithography in Germany --
New Stimulus from France --
Recent Developments in Germany --
Lithography in Britain and America after 1900 --
The Term 'Original'in Lithography --
The Present State of Lithographic Technique.
Includes bibliography and index.