A History of Lithography / Wilhelm Weber

A History of Lithography / Wilhelm Weber

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REF.AM.2031
259 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 29 cm
1966
Wilhelm Weber
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.