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...painting I've ever seen, or even the best movie. The experience of a good video game is transcendent; Zelda is a great video game. At this moment, for instance, I'm at Lake Hylia in the mythical land of Hyrule. Imagine being inside an animated Japanese wood-block print. The sun is going down (it really is--you can track it across the sky), causing colors to punch out and deepen. I'm fly-fishing in peerless blue water--yellow sunlight bounces off the surface--and fat lunkers lurk below. When one at last strikes at the red-feathered...
...PRINTS AND PRIVILEGES: REGULATING THE PRINT IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY ITALY...
...current Prints and Privileges: Regulating the Print in Sixteenth Century Italy show at the Fogg is not one to be raced through. It requires concentration. You have to be, unlike me, willing to read all of the fine print. My first time visiting the exhibit, I walked through the hallway and one room a bit confused. I could not ascertain what the thread was that linked these varied Renaissance prints together. I was totally oblivious to the point being made...
...exhibit is essentially an exploration of the print in Renaissance Italy as a form of counterfeit. It features both prints and some privileges, a deed given to an artist by the government stating that no one can copy their work. Some walls display a juxtaposition of originals with their respective copies; frequently though, the copies stand alone. It is organized thematically, according to the different media copied, and focuses mostly on the Durer/Marcantonio Raimondi pieces in the hallway as a point of departure for considering all of the other prints...
...junior tutorial in the History of Art and Architecture department which Pon taught last year. The class was developed in conjunction with this show. Both the lectures which various students from that tutorial will be giving in the upcoming months and the symposium on "The Materiality of Print in Early Modern Europe" will refer to the apparent parallels between these issues of copying during the Renaissance and contemporary artistic concerns...