The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. Hardcover. Like New. 10x9x1. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Minimal tear to jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xiii, 259 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. <br> "Monotype is a print medium whose simple concept, spontaneous process, and elegant result attract both artists and collectors. The earliest monotypes date from the 1640s, when Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione printed compositions he drew into ink spread on un-incised metal plates. Since then, artists have periodically rediscovered the technique for themselves. Degas's prolific experiments with monotype at the end of the nineteenth century led to some of the most beautiful examples ever. Indeed, their exhibition in 1968 at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a major factor in the recent surge of interest in the medium by artists and art historians. This book presents the first historical survey of monotypes. Curators from the departments of prints, drawings, and photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, discuss and illustrate 106 unique prints by forty-two artists ranging from Rembrandt and Castiglione, Matisse and Picasso, Prendergast and Chase, to such diverse contemporary figures as Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Robert Motherwell, and Richard Diebenkorn." <br> This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.