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Paper knives, paper crowns : political prints in the Dutch Republic

Title
Paper knives, paper crowns : political prints in the Dutch Republic / Maureen Warren ; contributors, Wolfgang P. Cillessen, Meredith McNeill Hale, Daniel R. Horst, Ilja M. Veldman.
Publication
Champaign, IL : Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, [2022]

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Additional Authors
  • Warren, Maureen
  • Cillessen, Wolfgang.
  • Hale, Meredith McNeill.
  • Horst, Daniel.
  • Veldman, Ilja M.
  • Krannert Art Museum, organizer, host institution.
  • University of San Diego. University Galleries, host institution.
  • Smith College. Museum of Art, host institution.
Description
182 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 29 cm
Summary
"Paper Knives, Paper Crowns: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic explores the myriad and complex visual strategies early modern Netherlandish printmakers used to memorialize historical events, lionize and demonize domestic and international leaders, and form consensus for collective action. Netherlandish printmakers experimented with graphic visual language in a daring and subversive fashion. They supplemented conventions and tropes inherited from medieval and Renaissance maps, city views, book illustrations, news prints, and polemical prints and established new forms of expression. While some of their prints employ visual puns and humor that even the illiterate could enjoy, others were captioned in Latin or French as well as Dutch, enticing educated elites across Europe to explore the relationship between text and image. Through mercantile and diplomatic channels, Dutch political prints transcended national and temporal boundaries to make a lasting impact. The catalogue essays present a comprehensive chronological arc and thematic overview, addressing multiple types of printmaking as well as the medium's relationship to other art forms, including "fine art" printmaking, painting, drawing, sculpture, and architecture. As such, the book engages deeply with art historical scholarship and studies of early modern political history and theory. The publication will demonstrate that methods of using images to comment upon, manage, and understand political life in practice today are indebted to the radical innovations of early modern printmakers in the Dutch Republic"--
Subject
  • 1568-1648
  • Prints, Dutch > Exhibitions
  • Political art > Netherlands > Exhibitions
  • Political cartoons
  • Politics and government
  • Prints, Dutch
  • Netherlands
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • "This publication accompanies the exhibition Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, organized by Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, on view August 25-December 17, 2022"--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Dutch Political Prints: Historiography in a Nutshell / Ilja M. Veldman -- "What Wonders, What News!" Political Prints in the Dutch Republic / Maureen Warren -- Cartoons and Cruelties: Political Prints from the Critical First Decades of the Dutch Revolt / Daniel Horst -- Journalism with a Fun Factor: Satires by Crispijn de Passe the Younger / Ilja M. Veldman -- Dutch Pictorial Propaganda in the Medium of Political Correspondence in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century / Wolfgang P. Cillessen -- Romeyn de Hooghe, Caricature, and Modernity / Meredith McNeill Hale.
ISBN
  • 9781646570294
  • 1646570294
LCCN
  • 2022006390
  • 99992289867
OCLC
  • on1316775038
  • 1316775038
  • SCSB-14345558
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries