Word: lithographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There has always been about lithography a touch of sorcery, and perhaps no man has ever described this more succinctly than Goethe in 1823. Shown some lithographs of a poem he had jotted down only an hour before, he wrote in astonishment. "This is my handwriting-and yet, it isn't." Though a form of reproduction, the lithograph retains all the life and spontaneity of the artist's original design...
Last week, in a glass-covered court and adjoining gallery of the Bavarian State Graphic Collection, originally designed by Adolf Hitler himself as an annex to the Nazi Brown House, one of the most com prehensive lithograph exhibitions ever assembled opened in Munich. There were Munchs and Noldes. Daumiers and Lautrecs, Chagalls and Picassos. But the real star of the show was one of Munich's own sons. His works are a bit clumsy, and he was not really much of an artist. Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, born in 1771, was lithography's inventor...
...eyes. In his Holy Family Beside a Rushing Stream, the three figures sit in a dense forest in which the smallest branch of the smallest tree can be seen. In the distance lies an entire city, and beyond that a mountain and beyond that the sky. The fastidiously constructed lithograph is less than 9 in. tall and 7 in. wide; yet the viewer can stay lost in it for minutes. It is not only the work of a gifted technician but of a hypnotist who has the power to hold...
...that hard work and imaginative research did not constitute the whole story of 3M's success. For the past three decades, the nine-count indictment said, 3M has systematically violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by attempting to monopolize markets in sealing and masking tapes, magnetic tape and aluminum lithograph plates. Among the charges: > That in exchange for licenses to produce 3M-patented products, 3M demanded of competitors the right to fix prices and production and dictate markets. > That to supplement the patent-licensing tactic, 3M banded together with existing competitors to amass new patents in order to choke...
GROPPER ART GALLERIES (in the lower lobby of the Brattle Theatre): "Art Nouveau," a collection of original lithograph posters by leading artists of this style. Starts Monday...