Key facts

Types	Day and Weekend Weekly Classes
Location	Oxford
Address	Rewley House 1 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JA
Dates	Wed 3 Oct to Wed 7 Nov 2012 Day: Wednesday Time of meeting: 5.30pm - 7.00pm Number of meetings: 6
Subject area(s)	History of Art
Fees	From £98.00
Application status	Course ended
Course code	O12P163ARL
Course contact	If you have any questions about this course, please email ppdayweek@conted.ox.ac.uk.

Overview

Painters have always been the best printmakers, bringing their experience of using pigment to conjure mass, space, light and dark to the austere discipline of mark-making with a graver or etcher’s needle. The patterns and textures they devised to this end are far more interesting than the regular mesh of lines produced by reproductive printmakers. Before the introduction of photo-mechanical reproduction, painters also depended on prints to broadcast their pictorial innovations and secure their reputations, so they are usually carefully considered. Yet today prints are neglected, since the light-sensitive nature of paper prevents their permanent display in museums. Patrick Doorly’s lectures will seek to remedy this neglect, while setting autograph prints in the context of their prevailing culture.

Programme details

WEDNESDAYS 3 OCTOBER – 7 NOVEMBER 2012
From 5.30pm – 7.00pm
Coffee/tea is provided in the Common Room before each lecture, from 5.00pm
5.00pm Registration (first week only 3 October in Rewley House Reception)
3 October 2012 Martin Schongauer and the origins of printmaking
10 October 2012 Andrea Mantegna and the print in Italy
17 October 2012 Albrecht Dürer, master printmaker
24 October 2012 Rembrandt’s etchings
31 October 2012 Canaletto and the etched veduta
7 November 2012 Hogarth’s morality tales in paint and print

Staff

Recommended reading

SUGGESTED READING

Anthony Griffiths, Prints and Printmaking: an introduction to the history and techniques, 2nd ed.
(London: British Museum Press, 1996), £12.99

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Programme Fee

Tuition (includes coffee/tea): £98.00

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