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Landscape and Nature in American Prints

其他書名	Transformations in Form and Meaning in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists
出版	Indiana University, Department of Fine Arts- History of Art, 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3nPsAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This dissertation focuses on three issues that have been recently demanding the attention of artists and scholars around the world: the renovation of meanings in the use of landscapes and natural elements as subject matter for artworks, the increasing number of contemporary women artists that are becoming involved with the production of prints, and the expanding field of the medium with the incorporation of new technologies alongside the traditional means. Other graphic and more primitive means of making an imprint are also being explored in this medium. My aim is to point out the transformative approach developed by a number of contemporary women artists, both regarding the subject matter of nature and the visible world, as well as their use of the printmaking medium as essential sources for aesthetic discoveries. It is my belief that the anti-visual stance that has been flourishing since Post modernism is being challenged by the new figurative work produced by American women artists. They are bringing to the medium of printmaking the novel strategies employed in their works in different media, such as painting, drawing or large installations. I believe that time has come for a reappraisal of the printmaking medium as a vital source to register, document as well as to comment on the issues of the hands-on approach, the use of advanced photographic and digital technologies and their role in the creative imagination of practitioners. With their use of nature and landscape as tools for the disclosure of their personal aesthetic concerns in various media, these artists are reclaiming the power of vision to become a cognitive conduit between what we see, what we make and what we think. With their embrace of printmaking as a means to achieve their goals, American contemporary artists are presenting us with new aesthetic advances in this field.