Research Catalog

Title

Anna Artaker : the pencil of nature / herausgegeben von Lisa Ortner-Kreil und Ingried Brugger ; Übersetzung englisch: Abigail Prohaska.

Author

Artaker, Anna, 1975-

Publication

Wien : Kunstforum Wien ; Wien : Verlag für moderne Kunst, [2017]

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Additional Authors

• Ortner-Kreil, Lisa.
• Brügger, Ingried.
• Kunstforum Wien.

Description

85 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

For her exhibition of nature prints Anna Artaker has borrowed the title of the publication with which William Henry Fox Talbot introduced his photographic method in 1844-46: The Pencil of Nature. Starting point for the nature prints are Talbot's photograms: In his experiments for capturing the incidence of light on paper Talbot pressed plants with glass plates onto sensitised paper and exposed them to sunlight to fix them as negative silhouettes. Anna Artaker associates this "birth of photography from the spirit of botany" with nature printing, a technique perfected in Vienna in the mid-nineteenth century. Like the photogram, nature printing is also based on an actual contact with nature "that gives its very self to printing", as Alois Auer wrote, the director of the Austrian National Printing Office (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei) who advanced the development of nature printing to the extent of attaining patent registration in 1852: Starting out from an imprint in lead of the object to be printed, a copper intaglio plate is made using two galvanoplastic impressions, producing true to original images not only of but also through nature. The exhibition shows contemporary nature prints of plants used by Talbot in his time for photograms, also the intermediate stages of the process and a facsimile and original print from Talbot's publication. Exhibition: Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria (18.05.-16.07.2017).

Alternative Title

Pencil of nature

Subject

• Artaker, Anna, 1975- > Exhibitions
• Nature prints > Exhibitions
• Nature in art > Exhibitions

Note

• On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Wien, May 18 - July 16, 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Parallel texts in German and English.

ISBN

• 9783903153561
• 3903153567

LCCN

9783903153561

OCLC

• on1001430003
• 1001430003
• SCSB-8963620

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries