Word: schanker
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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With the rise of photography. U.S. printmaking came perilously close to dying out or becoming an academic backwater. What started the revival was the discovery of exciting new technical possibilities in the craft. Using up to 16 blocks to print from. Artist Louis Schanker showed the rich color harmonies that could be achieved in what was traditionally a black-and-white medium. A shot in the arm from abroad came when Stanley William Hayter brought his Paris Atelier 17 to Greenwich Village in 1940, made it a center of experimental techniques where artists used everything from wadded newspapers...