ARHS 3364 - History and Theory of Prints

Credits: 3

Covers how prints are made and how they can function (newspapers, postage stamps, maps, works of art, etc.). Also, the history of printmaking, established and emerging printmakers and major printmaking techniques from the 15th through 21st centuries, and fundamental issues regarding originality and copying, uniqueness and multiplicity, display, and collecting as raised by the medium of print. Provides first-hand experience of prints through looking assignments, visits to local collections, and in-class exercises. (Temporalities post-1500)