Word: print
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...struck immediately not by the similarity, but by the dissimilarity in the works. The print really is a method of art production all its own. The works made à partir de the paintings are not mere copies of them: derivation is what is possible. Not duplication, but dissemination. The Ingres is recast in a world of matrices, etched linear lines, solid, dashed or dotted, with a constant and deliberate geometrical pattern by which effects of depth and texture are achieved. The color of the paint may be lost, but something else is gained...
...print, as Cohn claims on her welcome mural, is a language all of its own—“with its own vocabulary, grammar, and syntax…poetry and prose”—we see that the reproduction of a work of art by any printed mechanism is in fact a translation, and therefore imperfect: a variation. In translation, the Ingres loses its chubbiness and cheerfulness but attains a sort of depth in its new black and white form that prefigures the transformation of depth of representation that would take place with the tension of photography?...
...that photography and film have eclipsed it in technology, the making of a print today is a very deliberate act. This is the story that is documented in this single room of the Fogg: history since the moment when the woodcut was the high-tech way to disseminate one’s art, and marked the acceleration of global vision, to the moment when the print is an antique process, a deliberate and elaborate activity whose moment of impression is used...
...deliberate moment of the print is strongly felt in front of Eric Avery’s work, showing the tactility of life that is left in those whose lives are accelerating towards being no more. Avery is a physician; his prints depict his patients, sufferers of AIDS. Here each moment seems to be of an expanded worth, as is the moment that his stark woodcut portrait squelched into the paper-pulp he chose as medium and soaked up the blackness of intention. As in “I won’t be no beast of burden” (Avery...
...indelibility of the printed image is played with too, as well as its precision: There are modern woodcuts and prints that are deliberately altered after impression. The moment of the act of printing might have passed, just as the era of the print is fading, but therein lies the value of the museum, especially one of resource and direction as didactic as the Fogg...