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Prints and Visual Communication by William M. Ivins Jr. (1969, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262590026

ISBN-139780262590020

eBay Product ID (ePID)85803

Product Key Features

Book TitlePrints and Visual Communication

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Prints

Publication Year1969

FeaturesReprint

IllustratorYes

GenreDesign, Art, Psychology

AuthorWilliam M. Ivins Jr.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight11.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN68-031583

Reviews"This is the first book that unequivocally declares and historically supports thedignity, the force, and the validity of the printed picture as a basic form of communication in allforms of the repeatable image, whether woodcut, photograph or photographic reproduction.Distinguished by wit and forthrightness, it is a lively illustrated survey of the search for methodsof reproduction to give the visual image the flexibility that the language of words achieved throughthe printer's press.... Rarely does a technical work have authority coupled with imagination andreadibility. Mr. Ivins' book exhibits both these qualities. Through the deeply sensitive pen of thisscholar the visual image joins the sight and sound of words to take a place in the stream of humancommunication." Romana Javitz Picturescope, This is the first book that unequivocally declares and historically supports the dignity, the force, and the validity of the printed picture as a basic form of communication in all forms of the repeatable image, whether woodcut, photograph or photographic reproduction. Distinguished by wit and forthrightness, it is a lively illustrated survey of the search for methods of reproduction to give the visual image the flexibility that the language of words achieved through the printer's press.... Rarely does a technical work have authority coupled with imagination and readibility. Mr. Ivins' book exhibits both these qualities. Through the deeply sensitive pen of this scholar the visual image joins the sight and sound of words to take a place in the stream of human communication.-- Romana Javitz , Picturescope--, "This is the first book that unequivocally declares and historically supports the dignity, the force, and the validity of the printed picture as a basic form of communication in all forms of the repeatable image, whether woodcut, photograph or photographic reproduction. Distinguished by wit and forthrightness, it is a lively illustrated survey of the search for methods of reproduction to give the visual image the flexibility that the language of words achieved through the printer's press.... Rarely does a technical work have authority coupled with imagination and readibility. Mr. Ivins' book exhibits both these qualities. Through the deeply sensitive pen of this scholar the visual image joins the sight and sound of words to take a place in the stream of human communication." Romana Javitz Picturescope, "This is the first book that unequivocally declares and historically supports the dignity, the force, and the validity of the printed picture as a basic form of communication in all forms of the repeatable image, whether woodcut, photograph or photographic reproduction. Distinguished by wit and forthrightness, it is a lively illustrated survey of the search for methods of reproduction to give the visual image the flexibility that the language of words achieved through the printer's press.... Rarely does a technical work have authority coupled with imagination and readibility. Mr. Ivins' book exhibits both these qualities. Through the deeply sensitive pen of this scholar the visual image joins the sight and sound of words to take a place in the stream of human communication." - Romana Javitz, Picturescope, This is the first book that unequivocally declares and historically supports the dignity, the force, and the validity of the printed picture as a basic form of communication in all forms of the repeatable image, whether woodcut, photograph or photographic reproduction. Distinguished by wit and forthrightness, it is a lively illustrated survey of the search for methods of reproduction to give the visual image the flexibility that the language of words achieved through the printer's press.... Rarely does a technical work have authority coupled with imagination and readibility. Mr. Ivins' book exhibits both these qualities. Through the deeply sensitive pen of this scholar the visual image joins the sight and sound of words to take a place in the stream of human communication.

Dewey Edition18

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal769.9

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisThe sophistication of the photographic process has had two dramatic results-freeing the artist from the confines of journalistic reproductions and freeing the scientist from the unavoidable imprecision of the artist's prints. So released, both have prospered and produced their impressive nineteenth- and twentieth-century outputs. It is this premise that William M. Ivins, Jr., elaborates in Prints and Visual Communication , a history of printmaking from the crudest wood block, through engraving and lithography, to Talbot's discovery of the negative-positive photographic process and its far reaching consequences., The sophistication of the photographic process has had two dramatic results--freeing the artist from the confines of journalistic reproductions and freeing the scientist from the unavoidable imprecision of the artist's prints. So released, both have prospered and produced their impressive nineteenth- and twentieth-century outputs. It is this premise that William M. Ivins, Jr., elaborates in Prints and Visual Communication , a history of printmaking from the crudest wood block, through engraving and lithography, to Talbot's discovery of the negative-positive photographic process and its far reaching consequences.

LC Classification NumberNE430