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Lang, Gladys Engel, 1919-2016 / Lang, Kurt, 1924-2019. Etched in memory: the building and survival of artistic reputation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xviii, 437pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth. How is it that some established artists but not others come to be considered worth remembering? For answers, Etched in Memory looks at how history interacts with personal biography. The authors dig deeply into the archives for material on the careers and posthumous fates of nearly 300 British and American printmakers, half of them women, active during the Etching Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The authors examine the effects of changing taste on artistic productivity, on building a reputation, and on the selective survival of artists within the collective memory. They document the influence on careers of family milieu, of acces to art education, of sponsorship and networks, of having (or lacking) money, and of being in the right place at the right time. Being remembered requires, at minimum, that the artist's work be preserved and deposited in the cultural archives. It is here that demographics and other circumstances put women at a cumulative disadvantage. - CONTENTS: Introduction: Reputation and Fashion -- The Etching Revival: a Taste Cycle. Etching Reborn ; Export to Britain ; On to America, Boom or Bust -- The Building of Reputation. Nature and Nurture, Decisions for Art ; Gateways to Art ; Into Etching, Patterns of Initiation ; On the Road to Recognition, The Personal Context ; Social and Historical Contexts -- Survival of Reputation. The Case of the Disappearing Lady-Etchers ; Reputation and the Collective Memory, A Summing Up -- Appendix A. Printmaking Techniques -- Appendix B. Artists in the Statistical Sample. 9780807819081 ISBN 0807819085. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 91535
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