HA 706 / 808
Problems in Connoisseurship West: Prints
35738 I ------ 11:00-12:20 T R
303 Spencer Museum of Art
Syllabus

Professor Stephen Goddard
goddard[at]ku[dot]edu
864 0127
Fall 2006

Goals

The goal of this class is to provide the training necessary for an intimate understanding of the techincal and tangible aspects of printed art. This training will lend authority to more complex cultural, art historical and politcal arguments. Specific skills to be mastered include:

Identifying who made a print, when, and where
Identifying how a print was made, and with what materials
Understanding why a print was made, for whom, and how it has been used
Detecting who has owned the print, how it has changed over time and how to care for it
Determining if the print is authentic and determining the print's value in both cultural and market terms
Understanding the print within the larger context of the multiple, both historically and in terms of emerging technologies

Texts

Griffiths, Antony. Prints and Printmaking. An Introduction to the History and Techniques. University of California Press, 1996.
Ivins, William M. Jr.. Prints and Visual Communication. The MIT Press, 1969.
Mayor, A. Hyatt. Prints and People, a Social History of Printed Pictures. Princeton University Press, 1981.

To hear an interview with Mayor, also involving Ivins, listen to an interview at the Archives of American Art

Other Resources

Articles on electronic reserve may be retrieved here: http://eres.lib.ku.edu/courseindex.asp

Course Requirements

Reading assignments must be completed before the relevant class. Readings for each class will be selected from the list of articles and texts on reserve. Your Mayor textbook should be read before fall break and your Ivins textbook should be read after fall break.

Writing assignments:

Short Papers: HA 706 students will do three short papers; HA 808 students will do four short papers. These will take the form of proposals for integrating prints into the permanent collection galleries, a task that is actually being examined by the museum this year. Details of these assignments will be given in class.

>> For nuts & bolts help with writing, don't forget about the K.U. Writing Center: http://www.writing.ku.edu/

Attendance and class participation.

Exams

There will be several ungraded quizzes on identifying printmaking techniques -- these will be followed by discussion rather than returned with grades.

Grades will be based on your writing assignments (70%) attendance & class participation (30%).

Tentative Schedule of Classes

{content for days noted as "OPEN" will be announced -- some will involve visits to area print resources}

August 17 Introduction

Basic Approaches / Case Studies with Old Master Prints

August 22 Resources for a fully documented artist:Dürer and Dürer copies
   --> library reserve Field, Richard S. Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship.
August 24 Cataloging Rembrandt and Rembrandt restrikes
   --> library reserve Osberth H. Barnard, "The Editions of Basan's 'Recueil de Rembrandt'" in Biorklund 1968.
   --> electronic reserve: Stogdon, Nicholas. "Captain Baillie and The Hundred Guilder Print."

August 29 Dürer, Raimondi & Rembrandt Case Studies
   --> electronic reserve: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Rembrandt, Experimental Etcher
   --> electronic reserve: Carroll, Margaret Deutsch/"Rembrandt as a Meditational Printmaker"
   --> electronic reserve: Ivins, William M., "Notes on Three Durer Woodblocks"
   --> library reserve Dean, Clay et. al., Changing Impressions: Marcantonio Raimondi & Sixteenth-Century Print Connoisseurship."
   --> Hedges, S. Blair. "A method for dating early books ..." http://evo.bio.psu.edu/hedgeslab/Publications/PDF-files/176.pdf
August 31 Understanding Marks on Prints / Catalogues Raisonné & Bibliography / Select prints for first paper
   --> Griffiths: "Print Catalogues," "Abbreviations and Lettering"
   --> Mayor: "Terms and abbreviations found on prints"

Recognizing Basic Printmaking Techniques

September 5 Basic Printmaking Techniques: Woodcut
   --> Griffiths: "Relief Processes," "Colour Printing"
September 7 Basic Printmaking Techniques: Intaglio
   --> Griffiths: "Inataglio Printing Processes," Colour Printing"

September 12 Basic Printmaking Techniques: Lithography
   --> Griffiths: "Lithography," Colour Printing"
September 14 Basic Printmaking Techniques: Stencil
   --> Griffiths: "Screenprinting"

September 19 Basic Printmaking Techniques: Camera & Computer
   --> Griffiths: "Photomechanical Processes"
   --> electronic reserve: In the Beginning/from Hands on Paper
September 21 Characteristics of Ink and Paper. Watermark Identification
   --> electronic reserve: Lunning, Elizabeth, "Characteristics of Italian Paper
   --> electronic reserve: Manick, Annette, "A Note on Printing Inks"

September 26 Conservation
   --> electronic reserve: Stiber, Linda S. et al, "The Triumphal Arch and the Large Triumphal Carriage of Maximilian I
   --> library reserve: Perkinson
September 28 OPEN

Collecting and Publishing

October 3 OPEN
October 5 Print Collecting / Select prints for second paper
   --> electronic reserve: Parshall, Pete, "Art and the Theater of Knowledge: The Origins of Print Collecting in Northern Europe"
   --> electronic reserve: Robinson, William W., "This Passion for Prints: Collecting and Connoisseurship in Northern Europe
   --> electronic reserve: Goddard, Stephen, "The Origin, Use, and Heritage of the Small Engraving in Renaissance Germany"
   --> electronic reserve: Metcalfe. Louis R., "A Prince of Print-Collectors: Michel de Marolles, Abbe de Villeloin"
   --> electronic reserve: Salamon, Ferdinando, The History of Prints and Printmaking (Chapter 4)/"The Last of the Great Collectors"

October 10 Early Print Publishing
   --> electronic reserve: Burgers, Jacqueline, In Der Vier Winden: de prentuitgeverij van Hieronymus Cock
October 12-15 break

October 17 Printmaking Organizations, 19th & 20th centuries, 1st short paper due
   --> electronic reserve: Burke, James D. and Alan Shestack/Introductory Remarks
   --> electronic reserve: Peters, Lisa. "Print Clubs in America"
   --> reserve: Brody, Jacqueline, "Sort of a Commercial for Prints"
October 19 Print Publishing since 1900
   --> electronic reserve: Loring, John/"Bad Printing"

October 24 Originality - Authenticity - Collaboration
   --> electronic reserve: Austin, Gabriel, "Alice in Dali-land"
   --> electronic reserve: Cone, Timothy, "Dali's Lawyer Takes a Stand"
   --> electronic reserve: Morse, A. Reynolds, "Who's Dali's Publisher?"
   --> electronic reserve: Field, Richard S., "Collaboration East & West: A Discussion"
   --> electronic reserve: Gilmour, Pat, "Symbiotic Exploitation or Collaboration: Dine & Hamilton with Crommelynck"
   --> http://www.earlmwashington.com/index.html
   --> http://www.thomas-kinkade.com/thomas_kinkade_galleries.htm
October 26 OPEN

Special Categories of Prints

October 31 Roy Perkinson (Guest Lecturer)
November 2 Open printroom study day (IFPDA)

November 7 OPEN
November 9 Special Categories of Prints: Ornament Prints

November 14 Special Categories of Prints: Photomechanical Processes
   --> electronic reserve: Bann, Stephen, "Photography by Other Means? The Engravings of Ferdinand Gaillard."
November 16 Special Categories of Prints: Artists Books & Multiples

November 21 Special Categories of Prints: Printmaking and Political Activism
November 23 No Class Thanksgiving Break

November 28 OPEN
November 30 Project Presentations

December 5 Experimental Printmaking, Bots
   --> electronic reserve: Murdoch, John, "Foreward"
December 7 Print Appreciations
   --> electronic reserve: Field, Richard S., "Sentences on Printed Art"
   --> electronic reserve: Worthen, Amy, "Prints in Words"