Research Catalog

Title

A model workshop : Margaret Lowengrund and the contemporaries / Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl with contributions by Sarah Archer, Ellen J. Benjamin, Noriko Kuwahara, Jillian Russo, and Rachel Vogel

Publication

New York : Print Center New York ; [Munich, Germany] : Hirmer Publishers, 2023.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rosenblum, Lauren, 1974-
• Weyl, Christina
• Hecker, Judith B.
• Bratovich, Jenn
• Russo, Jillian E.
• Archer, Sarah
• Kuwahara, Noriko
• Vogel, Rachel
• Print Center New York, host institution, issuing body

Description

120 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

A Model Workshop explores the understudied impact of Margaret Lowengrund (1902-57), a visionary figure within the mid-twentieth century printmaking community, and the vibrant New York workshop and gallery she founded, The Contemporaries. Bringing together original essays and archival documents, the book maps the activities, networks, and legacies of Lowengrund and The Contemporaries, placing them in the context of organized labor, feminism, entrepreneurship, international exchange, and modern prints. In doing so, A Model Workshop expands our understanding of 1950s printmaking by showing that Lowengrund and The Contemporaries were a vital nexus in the field.

Alternative Title

Margaret Lowengrund and the contemporaries

Subject

• Lowengrund, Margaret, 1902-1957 > Criticism and interpretation
• Lowengrund, Margaret, 1902-1957 > Exhibitions
• 1900-1999
• Women printmakers > 20th century
• Women printmakers > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
• Feminists > 20th century
• Prints > 20th century
• Estampe > 20e siècle
• Graveuses d'estampes > 20e siècle
• Graveuses d'estampes > New York (État) > New York > 20e siècle
• Féministes > 20e siècle
• Prints

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and the Contemporaries" presented at Print Center New York September 21-December 23, 2023."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (pages 112-119)

Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgments / Judy Hecker and Jenn Bratovich -- Introduction / Christina Wyel and Lauren Rosenblum -- Conceiving a Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund before The Contemporaries / Laruen Rosenblum -- Margaret Lowengrund -- Fusing Printmaking, Commerce, and Education: The Contemporaries and Pratt Graphic Art Center / Christina Weyl -- The Imprint of an Artist, Witness, and Advocate / Ellen J. Benjamin -- Vision and Grit: Margaret Lowengrund and New York's Female Galleriests of the 1950s / Jillian Russo -- Ideal Pictures for Modern Walls: Margaret Lowengrund, The Contemporaries, and the Postwar Middle-Class Interior / Sarah Archer -- The Contemporaries -- Printmaking Exchanges between Japan and the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century / Noriko Kuwahara -- Redefining Contemporary Print: Luis Camnitzer, Liliana Porter, and the New York Graphic Workshop / Rachel Vogel -- Pratt Graphic Art Center -- Chronology -- Exhibition Histories.

ISBN

• 377744152X
• 9783777441528

OCLC

• on1404459564
• 1404459564
• SCSB-14648638

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries