Word: impressionism
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There are two V.S. Naipauls, and the wrong one has become famous. Like most people, I encountered the wrong V.S. Naipaul first. This happened in the late 1980s, when my brother returned to our small South Indian hometown after his first year at a Californian university. Having left as a...
Peril lurks around every corner. Even in Ramadi, a Sunni town that the U.S. military considers under its control, the Marines are ambushed nearly every day by insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades. Convoys passing through the city must navigate a minefield of roadside bombs. The violence has made it impossible...
The process of print is overtly the subject of many of these printed works of art. The self-reflexivity of the media as mechanical, as reproducible, speaks to the subject matter that can be inscribed by it, as we see in Warhol’s “JFK Close...
Now that photography and film have eclipsed it in technology, the making of a print today is a very deliberate act. This is the story that is documented in this single room of the Fogg: history since the moment when the woodcut was the high-tech way to disseminate one?...
The indelibility of the printed image is played with too, as well as its precision: There are modern woodcuts and prints that are deliberately altered after impression. The moment of the act of printing might have passed, just as the era of the print is fading, but therein lies the...