Research Catalog

Title

Christiane Baumgartner : another country / Lisa Fischman, Claire C. Whitner, Richard S. Field.

Publication

• Munich, Germany : Hirmer, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fischman, Lisa
• Whitner, Claire C.
• Field, Richard S.
• Baumgartner, Christiane
• Davis Museum and Cultural Center, host institution

Description

142 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 x 29 cm

Summary

This catalogue complements Christiane Baumgartner's first major museum exhibition in the U.S. and offers an in-depth introduction to the artist's work at mid-career. Baumgartner is best known for monumental woodcuts, handcarved prints that literally and conceptually expand the traditional boundaries of the medium beyond expectation. Leipzig-based artist Christiane Baumgartner (b. 1967) works at the intersection of old and new media to expand the conceptual and technical capacities of printmaking. Sourcing images from cinema and TV or from her own photographs and videos, she hand-carves woodcuts that defy convention and expectation. Often monumental in scale or undertaken in large series, the work is about speed and transmission, about human sight and its elusive capture, about cultural memory and modes of representation. Essays contextualise the work in relation to German printmaking and the Leipzig school; an interview with the artist surveys her praxis at mid-career. Exhibition: Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA (21.9. - 16.12.2018).

Alternative Title

Another country

Subjects

• Baumgartner, Christiane
• Baumgartner, Christiane > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Prints, German

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, September 20-December 16, 2018.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140).

Contents

Director's introduction / Lisa Fischman -- Interview with the artist / Lisa Fischman and Christiane Baumgartner -- Among the engravers, etchers, and gougers : Christiane Baumgartner and the German printmaking tradition / Claire C. Whitner -- Another country : ambiguities present and past / Richard S. Fields -- Plates -- Plate list -- CV + selected bibliography -- Author biographies.

Call Number

JQF 18-1761

ISBN

• 3777430838
• 9783777430836

OCLC

1032021930

Title

Christiane Baumgartner : another country / Lisa Fischman, Claire C. Whitner, Richard S. Field.

Publisher

Munich, Germany : Hirmer, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140).

Added Author

Fischman, Lisa, writer of introduction, interviewer.

Whitner, Claire C., writer of supplementary textual content.

Field, Richard S., writer of supplementary textual content.

Baumgartner, Christiane. Prints. Selections.

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-1761