Edited by Christophe Cherix. Text by Christophe Cherix, Kim Conaty, Sarah Suzuki.
Over the past two decades, the art world has broadened its geographic reach and opened itself to new continents, allowing for a significant cross-pollination of post-conceptual strategies and vernacular modes. Printed materials, in both innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, examines the evolution of artistic practices related to printmaking, from the resurgence of traditional printing techniques--often used alongside digital technologies--to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artist’s books and ephemera. Print/Out features focused sections on ten artists and publishers--Ai Weiwei, Edition Jacob Samuel, Ellen Gallagher, Martin Kippenberger, Lucy McKenzie, Aleksandra Mir, museum in progress, Robert Rauschenberg, Superflex and Rirkrit Tiravanija--as well as rich illustrations of additional printed projects from the last 20 years by major artists such as Trisha Donnelly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Schütte and Kelley Walker. An introductory essay by Christophe Cherix, Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum, offers an overview of this period with particular attention to new directions and strategies within an expanded field of printmaking.
Featured image, Martin Kippenberger's 1992 screenprint, "Inhalt auf Reisen (Content on Tour)," is reproduced from Print/Out.
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Cherix (Museum of Modern Art) provides an insightful analysis of contemporary printmaking in Print/Out. He describes how artists, artist groups, printers, and publishers-working within roughly the last 20 years-have employed digital technology and exploited essential qualities of printmaking (such as multiplicity and collaboration) in a myriad of ways to produce conceptually rich and technically complex works of art. Specifically, Cherix succintly argues that current forays into printmaking allow artists (Rirkrit Tiravanija and Ai Weiwei, among others) to think through issues pertaining to censorship, copyright, and "relational art…" Extensively illustrated and inventively laid out, this book provides an excellent summation of the current state of printmaking and will prove invaluable to print scholars and scholars of contemporary art…Highly recommended.
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"Since the Renaissance, prints have enabled artists to disseminate their works and ideas throughout the world. Prints, like photographs and, to a lesser degree, cast sculpture, have the unusual capacity to exist in multiple places at the same time. This particular function has always fascinated artists, from Albrect Dürer, who used prints to impose his style throughout Europe at the end of the fifteenth century, to Joseph Beuys, who asserted in 1970, 'I'm interested in the distribution of physical vehicles in the form of editions because I'm interested in spreading ideas.'"
FORMAT: Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 236 pgs / 521 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $67.5 ISBN: 9780870708251 PUBLISHER: The Museum of Modern Art, New York AVAILABLE: 2/29/2012 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Edited by Christophe Cherix. Text by Christophe Cherix, Kim Conaty, Sarah Suzuki.
Over the past two decades, the art world has broadened its geographic reach and opened itself to new continents, allowing for a significant cross-pollination of post-conceptual strategies and vernacular modes. Printed materials, in both innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, examines the evolution of artistic practices related to printmaking, from the resurgence of traditional printing techniques--often used alongside digital technologies--to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artist’s books and ephemera. Print/Out features focused sections on ten artists and publishers--Ai Weiwei, Edition Jacob Samuel, Ellen Gallagher, Martin Kippenberger, Lucy McKenzie, Aleksandra Mir, museum in progress, Robert Rauschenberg, Superflex and Rirkrit Tiravanija--as well as rich illustrations of additional printed projects from the last 20 years by major artists such as Trisha Donnelly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Schütte and Kelley Walker. An introductory essay by Christophe Cherix, Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum, offers an overview of this period with particular attention to new directions and strategies within an expanded field of printmaking.
