Print Culture in Early Modern France

Abraham Bosse and the Purposes of Print

Carl Goldstein (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

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English

Cambridge University Press
13 February 2012

European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; Printing, packaging & reprographic industry

In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France through a study of the career of Abraham Bosse, a well-known printmaker, book illustrator, and author of books and pamphlets on a variety of technical subjects. The consummate print professional, Bosse persistently explored the endless possibilities of print – single-sheet prints combining text and image, book illustration, broadsides, placards, almanacs, theses, and pamphlets. Bosse had a profound understanding of print technology as a fundamental agent of change. Unlike previous studies, which have largely focused on the printed word, this book demonstrates the extent to which the contributions of an individual printmaker and the visual image are fundamental to understanding the nature and development of early modern print culture.

By: Carl Goldstein (University of North Carolina Greensboro)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 184mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9781107012141
ISBN 10: 1107012147
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 13 February 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. A printmaking revolution; 2. Scenes of everyday life; 3. Drama, theater, and prints; 4. Contingencies and contradictions; 5. A royal portrait; 6. Image and text: reading single-sheet prints; 7. Book illustrations; 8. Books and pamphlets.

Carl Goldstein is a professor of art at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Kress Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the Philosophical Society of America. He has published widely, including Visual Fact over Verbal Fiction: A Study of the Carracci and the Theory, Criticism, and Practice of Painting in Renaissance and Baroque Italy and Teaching Art: Academies and Schools from Vasari to Albers.

Reviews for Print Culture in Early Modern France: Abraham Bosse and the Purposes of Print

...this book will certainly fill a gap in the literature and be of use to students of art history. -Sheila McTighe, Renaissance Quarterly Through a general presentation of Bosse's /uvre, Carl Goldstein has sought to convey the vitality and the artistic, intellectual and cultural vigor of engraved art illustration in the early seventeenth century. He has sought range rather than depth, and description through a taxonomy of all the themes and genres in which Bosse worked. No subject would have served his purpose better than Bosse's life and work. -- Orest Ranum, emeritus professor of history, The Johns Hopkins University