In this revised and updated edition of the original publication by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1971, author A. Hyatt Mayor evaluates more than 700 prints as works of art, pointing out the precise effects of prints on literacy, commerce, science, fashions, religion, and political power. In short, he deals with the print's effects upon people, and places the art itself in the stream of life.
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An incomparable record of a great art and complex craft. . . . The reader gains a vivid, by no means cursory view of paper pictures (including photographs) in their extravagant technical variety, while he is guided as seldom before through the mechanism of connoisseurship. -- Review
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Evaluates the social value and meaning of over 700 prints throughout history,
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In this revised and updated edition of the original publication by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1971, author A. Hyatt Mayor evaluates more than 700 prints as works of art, pointing out the precise effects of prints on literacy, commerce, science, fashions, religion, and political power. In short, he deals with the print's effects upon people, and places the art itself in the stream of life.
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