Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010

by Marilyn Symmes, Joan Snyder

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This volume is the first monograph dedicated to the renowned artist Joan Snyder, highlighting her powerful and diverse printmaking oeuvre. While Snyder is perhaps best known for her extensive body of paintings, she is also an accomplished printmaker who freely experiments with a wide variety of techniques. This catalogue accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Snyder's prints and features more than 110 works that showcase her unique approach to the medium. The collection explores themes such as nature, sexuality, intimacy, violence, and death, reflecting Snyder’s deep engagement with complex subject matter. Infusing her prints with vibrant energy and color, Snyder employs and combines an array of techniques including etching, woodcut, lithography, monotype, and digital processes. Many of her prints are further enhanced by colorful applications of paint and pastel, adding richness and depth to her works. This volume includes rare uneditioned prints, unique hand-colored monoprints, and outstanding examples of editioned prints, some with selected variant impressions or working proofs. The works span her artistic development, from her earliest woodcut portraits created during her student years to her most recent prints. Additionally, the book features two essays: one interpreting her graphic imagery, and another tracing Snyder’s life as an artist while presenting a comprehensive chronology of her prints. Brand: Prestel Product Type: ABIS_BOOK Author: Marilyn Symmes Genr

• Publisher: Prestel Gmbh & Co KG.
• Year: 2011
• ISBN: 3791351060
• Condition: Very Good

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