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Printmaking was fundamental to Pablo Picassos artistic vision. Over his long career, he made well over 2000 printed images, focusing on the intaglio techniques of etching, engraving, dry point and aquatint, as well as on lithography and linoleum cut. This book, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, explores Picassos creative process in printmaking from the early years of the 20th century and his discovery of Cubism, right up to the last years of his life when he continually expanded the potential of the medium. Divided into twelve sections, the book presents highlights from the Museums extraordinary collection of Picassos prints. This includes such celebrated masterworks as The Minotauromachy and The WeepingWoman from the 1930s, as well as evolving states that reveal how Picassos imagery developed. One example of such metamorphosis is seen in a series of lithographs from the 1940s in which a progression is established from the realistic depiction of a bull to one that is completely abstract and captured in a few lines. Other prints reveal changing interpretations of the women in Picassos life, who served both as artistic subjects and catalytic forces for his creativity. Filled with full-page illustrations accompanied by extended captions, the volume features an essay by DeborahWye, Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at MoMA, and introductions to each thematic section. The book concludes with a chronology and bibliography focusing on Picassos printmaking.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's remarkable series of paintings known as the Berlin Street Scenes is a highpoint of the artist's work and a milestone of German Expressionism, widely seen as a metaphor for modernity itself through their depiction of life in a major metropolis. Kirchner moved from Dresden to Berlin in 1911, and it was in this teeming city, immersed in its vitality, decadence and underlying sense of danger posed by the imminent World War I, that he created the Street Scenes in a sustained burst of creative energy and ambition between 1913 and 1915. As the most extensive consideration of these paintings in English, this richly illustrated volume examines the creative process undertaken by the artist as he explores his theme through various mediums, and presents the major body of related charcoal drawings, pen-and-ink studies, pastels, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs he created in addition to the paintings. The volume also investigates the significance of the streetwalker as a primary motif, and provides insight on the series in the context of Kirchner's wider oeuvre.

'Prints, books and multiples have long played a vital role in the vanguard of European contemporary art. From London to Moscow, artists have expanded the scope of their creative vision--and expanded their audiences--through striking and inventive

Book DescriptionThis study of the modern and contemporary periods approaches art from intertwining historic and thematic perspectives. Four fundamental and pervasive themes, flowering during certain moments yet enduring throughout the years, are