Description:

Three Sides to a Sheet of Paper offers a new look at the nature of the printed image and illustrates it with outstanding prints from the past five centuries. Drawn from the Ackland's wide ranging print collection, it shows how, more obviously than any other artistic medium, prints communicate, represent, and transform their content. As multiple images, prints were the first medium of mass communication, diffusing everything from religious instruction and political propaganda to art and fashion. To do this, they had to represent forms, ideas, and often other works of art. But the artists' mastery of the technical requirements of the various print techniques inevitably transformed what they represented, translating images into new languages of line, color, and texture. The eighty prints in the exhibition represent many artists whose names are familiar: Durer, Rembrandt, Daumier, Whistler, Picasso, Romare Bearden, Andy Warhol, and Gerhard Richter, as well as artis
ts and craftsmen whose names are less familiar but whose prints display extraordinary virtuosity, such as Marcantonio Raimondi, Hendrick Goltzius, Rodolphe Bresdin,and Otto Dix. Please peruse the illustrated checklist on the exhibition website. A thirty-six page publication with an essay by Timothy Riggs, Ackland Curator of Collections, color and black and white reproductions, and a checklist, is available.

Two eight-week bookings beginning Spring 2007

Exhibition fee:

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