Newspapers, television, reproductive photography, and film took over the functions that at one time were served principally by the print and town crier.
I wonder what technological inventions will replace the examples given up? perhaps social media?
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So the print loses its identity as a state-of-theart mass medium and gains the freedom to pursue more aesthetic ideals
For me this is a positive change, in that, it allows artists to dismantle and challenge print's inherent association of mass production and to look critically at the medium's possibilities.
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formschneide
("formschneider"), printer, publisher and typographer closely associated with Albrecht Dürer.
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e had learned to see in a particular way and to lay his lines in accordance with the requirements of some particular convention or system of linear structure
This reminds me of the constantly resurfacing aspect of print in that print makers are often working within restrictions
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Heinrich Wolfflin's formulation of aesthetic theory
In Principles of Art History, Wölfflin formulated five pairs of opposed or contrary precepts in the form and style of art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which demonstrated a shift in the nature of artistic vision between the two periods. They were linear vs painterly, plan to recession, closed form to open form, multiplicity to unity, and absolute clarity to relative clarity.
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prints are at once intimate and political, private and public
What are some examples of intimate and political prints?
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spent the 1960s refining and perfecting their ink and stencil duplicating products
This reminds me of one Chinese idiom " Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job."
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prisons
Why would prisons need to produce large volume of prints?
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Working with a Risograph gives you total artistic independence,
This reminds me of the creative prints popular in Edo Japan where the prints stressed the artist as the sole creator motivated by a desire for self-expression, and advocated principles of art that is "self-drawn" "self-carved"and "self-printed".
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Riso ink is made of soy oil
I have always associated technology with things that are artificial. So its really interesting to know that there is vegetable-based ink!
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