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The "writing" of modern life : the etching revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940 / Elizabeth Helsinger [and others]

Catalog Data

Author:
Helsinger, Elizabeth K. 1943-  Search this
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art  Search this
Subject:
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 101 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Place:
Illinois
Chicago
Date:
2008
19th century
20th century
Notes:
Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Nov. 18, 2008-Apr. 19, 2009.
Contents:
Preface and acknowledgments -- The new language of etching in nineteenth-century England / Martha Tedeschi -- Seduced by the etcher's needle : French writers and the graphic arts in nineteenth-century France / Anna Arnar -- Toward a Gothic vision / Peyton Skipwith -- The "writing" of modern life / Elizabeth Helsinger -- Process, experimentation, and la belle "preuve" / Alison Morehead -- Catalogue entries on F'lix Bracquemond, the upper part of a door, and F'lix Buhot, a landing in England -- Catalogue entries / Eerin Nerstad -- Checklist of the exhibition
Topic:
Etching  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_920166