Impressions of the 20th Century: Fine Art Prints from the V&A Collection

- - Product Description: From the first half of the twentieth century, early British masters of etching such as Walter Sickert and Augustus John are included, while Paul Nash and Eric Gill exemplify the 1920s to 1930s fashion for woodblock-printing. Works from Picasso, Matisse, Vuillard and Chagall sit alongside prints from German artists Paul Klee and Franz Marc. After the Second World War the scale and ambition of lithographs and screen-prints began to rival contemporary paintings. All the key American exponents, such as Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Roy Lichenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol and Ron Kitaj are represented, while in Britain artists like Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Eduardo Paolozzi and Patrick Caulfield were pushing forward the boundaries of the fine art print. This book explores the ever-increasing diversity of printmaking - whether crossing over into installation art or incorporating the human body as both image and tool - and challenges our notions of what constitutes a fine art print, posing intriguing questions as to how the medium might develop in the future. Margaret Timmers is Head of Prints in the Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings at the V&A. She curated the V&A exhibition The Power of the Poster (1998), and edited the award-winning accompanying publication of the same name (V&A, 1998).

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