Hirmer Publishing

Hirmer Publishing - Set in stone: lithography in paris, 1815-1900 | christine giviskos

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• Invented in the late eighteenth century
• Lithography introduced a new process and new opportunities for the creation and circulation of printed images
• Artists
• Printers
• And publishers embraced the new medium for its relative ease and economic advantages as compared with the established printmaking media of woodcut
• Engraving
• And etching
• Taking root in Paris after the fall of Napoleon’s empire
• The art and industry of lithography grew in tandem with the city as it became Europe’s artistic and urban capital over the course of the nineteenth century
• Lithographs played a distinct role in both documenting and advancing—not to mention satirizing—the various competing art movements of the period