Print as other
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Richard Harding
Abstract
Australian artist and educator Richard Harding explores print’s position within contemporary art through the socio-political notion, developed in the context of postcolonial and queer theory, of ‘otherness’. Viewed through the lens of identity and gender politics, print’s matrixial and reproductive nature and its lack of ‘originality’ result in its ‘queer’ position within art’s medium hierarchy.
Abstract
Australian artist and educator Richard Harding explores print’s position within contemporary art through the socio-political notion, developed in the context of postcolonial and queer theory, of ‘otherness’. Viewed through the lens of identity and gender politics, print’s matrixial and reproductive nature and its lack of ‘originality’ result in its ‘queer’ position within art’s medium hierarchy.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Frontispiece v
- Contents vii
- List of figures ix
- Notes on contributors xii
- Acknowledgements xix
- A note on sources and copyright materials xx
- Introduction 1
- Genealogy 11
- Introduction to Part I 13
- Fragments for an art history of media 16
- The technical gaze 25
- Post-print culture? 33
- Part I further reading 46
- I Debates 49
- Introduction to Part II 51
- The syntax of the print 56
- Sentences on printed art 69
- The re-vision of printmaking 72
- The shape of graphic art 82
- The graphic unconscious or the how and why of a print triennial 95
- Print as other 104
- The what and the why of print 114
- Part II further reading 127
- II Keywords 129
- Introduction to Part III 131
- Coordinates of a history of the technical image 138
- The status of the reproduction 141
- Benjamin's blindspot 155
- Are all multiples the same? 162
- Printing plates and pixel matrix 174
- Opening up an anachronistic point of view (1997) 184
- Untying the knot 196
- Spirit duplication 207
- Three ways to use yellow 211
- On the manual (in the manual) 215
- Animal print suicide 219
- Part III further reading 224
- III The field 229
- Introduction to Part IV 231
- Edinburgh Printmakers and the workshop 239
- Projects and portfolios 244
- Lasting impressions? 257
- Print and the public sphere 269
- The work event 278
- All the instruments agree 288
- Stamping (molding) marks 295
- Chinese printmaking in the twenty-first century 304
- What is 'studio' in the post-disciplinary age? 310
- Making a place 318
- Failures, irritations and grief in printing 327
- Part IV further reading 330
- Index 337
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Frontispiece v
- Contents vii
- List of figures ix
- Notes on contributors xii
- Acknowledgements xix
- A note on sources and copyright materials xx
- Introduction 1
- Genealogy 11
- Introduction to Part I 13
- Fragments for an art history of media 16
- The technical gaze 25
- Post-print culture? 33
- Part I further reading 46
- I Debates 49
- Introduction to Part II 51
- The syntax of the print 56
- Sentences on printed art 69
- The re-vision of printmaking 72
- The shape of graphic art 82
- The graphic unconscious or the how and why of a print triennial 95
- Print as other 104
- The what and the why of print 114
- Part II further reading 127
- II Keywords 129
- Introduction to Part III 131
- Coordinates of a history of the technical image 138
- The status of the reproduction 141
- Benjamin's blindspot 155
- Are all multiples the same? 162
- Printing plates and pixel matrix 174
- Opening up an anachronistic point of view (1997) 184
- Untying the knot 196
- Spirit duplication 207
- Three ways to use yellow 211
- On the manual (in the manual) 215
- Animal print suicide 219
- Part III further reading 224
- III The field 229
- Introduction to Part IV 231
- Edinburgh Printmakers and the workshop 239
- Projects and portfolios 244
- Lasting impressions? 257
- Print and the public sphere 269
- The work event 278
- All the instruments agree 288
- Stamping (molding) marks 295
- Chinese printmaking in the twenty-first century 304
- What is 'studio' in the post-disciplinary age? 310
- Making a place 318
- Failures, irritations and grief in printing 327
- Part IV further reading 330
- Index 337
