German Expressionist Prints: The Specks Collection at the Milwaukee Museum of Art [Hardcover]

Stephanie D'Alessandro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 23, 2004

The Specks Collection is noted for its high quality, breadth, and profound graphic power. In celebration of the gift to the museum, the collection is presented here for the first time in its entirety.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Press; 1 edition (January 23, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944110940
• ISBN-13: 978-0944110942
• Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 10.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,165,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't judge a book by it's cover, May 26, 2005

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Chris J (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: German Expressionist Prints: The Specks Collection at the Milwaukee Museum of Art (Hardcover)

This book opens with a sequence of images which shows how good it might have been. Each image is given a full page, unencumbered with text, and thus obtains its full power. Unfortunately, that's where it ends, as most of the rest of the book is like looking through somebody's stamp collection, with up to 5 images a page!. There are simply too many images crammed in, so, instead of enjoying the prints for what they are, you are left wondering what they would have looked like had they been presented properly. This is especially unfortunate when you realise prints are an ideal opportunity to present the work as the artist might have wished - since, unlike paintings, they are actually intended for reproduction.

So, useful if you want just an academic catalogue record of everything that is in the Marcia and Granvil Specks collection, but pretty useless otherwise.

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and beautifully presented, October 18, 2011

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D. Edwards (Silicon Valley) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: German Expressionist Prints: The Specks Collection at the Milwaukee Museum of Art (Hardcover)

A fabulous survey of the print works of the German Expressionist artists. Although some of the images are small, the printing quality is of such high caliber that they hold up very well under magnification. I've long been interested in work from this movement, but was introduced to artists I had not previously encountered. A very well done catalogue and essential for anyone with an interest in the art of this period.

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must" for art history buff supplemental reading lists, August 10, 2004

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: German Expressionist Prints: The Specks Collection at the Milwaukee Museum of Art (Hardcover)

An impressive collaborative project of the Hudson Hills Press and the Milwaukee Art Museum, German Expressionist Prints: The Marcia And Granvil Specks Collection is a striking artbook portraying black and white imagery, reflecting the positive and negative facets of German life from the 1890s to the 1930s. Bold figures of over 475 prints with brief biographies of the artists who created them and commentaries upon the art form itself make German Expressionist Prints a "must" especially for art history buff supplemental reading lists in general, and academic library German art history collections in particular!