Printing Colour 1400-1700: History, Techniques, Functions and Receptions

In Printing Colour 1400-1700, Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Savage offer the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking before 1700 (when most such histories begin), creating a new, interdisciplinary paradigm for the history of graphic art. It unveils a corpus of thousands of individual colour prints from across early modern Europe, proposing art historical, bibliographical, technical and scientific contexts for understanding them and their markets.

The twenty-three contributions represent the state of research in this still-emerging field. From the first known attempts in the West until the invention of the approach we still use today (blue-red-yellow-black/'key', now CMYK), it demonstrates that colour prints were not rare outliers, but essential components of many early modern book, print and visual cultures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004269681
• ISBN13: 9789004269682
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.6"