The "American scene" print and the cartoon

Author

Balk, Eugene

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Print quarterly. 1994, Num. 4, Vol. 11, 379-394, 12 ill.

ISSN

0265-8305

Abstract (en)

Chronicles the burgeoning popularity of lithography in the 1930s, showing that printmakers and illustrators often turned to cartoons and caricatures for inspiration. Shows that this adoption of the humorous vein in lithographs during this period was part of a larger attempt by printmakers to incorporate modernism into their art while avoiding the elitism, aestheticism and apparent French influence of some strains of modernism.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Prints and illustration -- United States
• Prints
• United States
• 1900-2000
• Lithography
• Sources
• Cartoons (humorous drawings)
• Caricature
• Modernism

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Estampe et illustration -- États-Unis
• Estampe
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000
• Lithographie
• Sources
• Dessin humoristique
• Caricature
• Modernisme

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950701-00318829

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