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This idea of the work of art in a world of art works is explored in the exhibition as well. There are prints which seek to render the Roman Colloseum as “Experienced Space” for those who cannot journey there. The cathedral at Rouen and all its intricacy is explored by print-makers again and again from the late 18th century until Lichtenstein...
...marketability of art itself arrived with the advent of print. It became for the first time a potentially infinite set of representative objects, not just a single “true” artifact. Print was the great democratizer of the art world. No longer was art’s importance based on the Grand Tourism of those affluent enough to make the pilgrimage to the sites of culture in Europe. Suddenly, people who might have been lucky enough to hear of art, to read descriptions of the Louvre, could now from provincial distance actually observe the works...
...extremity. Furthest from the entrance, as if deliberately hidden form the most ADD stricken of frivolous tourists, the democratized museum has brought us to a thoroughly different milieu. Here there is a comparison that sets before our very eyes the power and possibility of the media of print...
...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?...