Drawings for Prints: From the Paris Salons to a Symbiotic Art Market and Time Signatures - Video

"Drawings for Prints: From the Paris Salons to a Symbiotic Art Market and Time Signatures: Expressionism Between Drawing and Print": Presented by The Drawing Foundation.

Exhibiting Drawings for Prints: From the Paris Salons to a Symbiotic Art Market charts the early exhibition history of drawings related to prints in 18th-century France using a data-driven approach which traces the intertwined markets for the two media and spotlights two extraordinary instances in which they collided in the Paris Salons.

Time Signatures: Expressionism Between Drawing and Print explores two initiatives of the German Expressionists known as "Die Brücke” (The Bridge)—the touring of their prints throughout Germany and the development of a life-drawing practice they called Viertelstundenakte, or “quarter-hour nudes.” Many of the quarter-hour nudes were translated into prints. This talk compares the temporalities of these two modes of image-production and how tempo, pace, and reiteration map the Expressionist enterprise and an industrializing Germany.

J. Cabelle Ahn, independent art historian; PhD Candidate, Harvard University; Vice President, Association of Print Scholars.

Joseph Henry, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center; Florence B. Selden Fellow in Prints and Drawings, Yale University Art Gallery.