Online launch of Printing Colour 1700–1830 on 29 May, 11am (NY) / 4pm (UK).
Advanced registration (free) is required:
https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/book-launch-printing-colour-1700-1830 .
First, the editors Margaret Morgan Grasselli (formerly National Gallery of Art) and Elizabeth Savage (School of Advanced Study, University of London) will introduce a new way of understanding the millions of color-printed words, images, textiles, household goods, and objects that were printed in colour in the long eighteenth century.
Then, there will be an opportunity for open discussion with many of its contributors: David Alexander, Rob Banham, Sidney Berger, Dionysia Christoforou, Michèle Cloonan, Karen Cook, Patricia Ferguson, Victor Gonzales, Susan Greene, Rena Hoisington, Geert-Jan Janse, Corinne Le Bitouzé, Phillippa Mapes, Manon van der Mullen, Alice Nicoliello, Julia Nurse, Chiara Palandri, Michael Phillips, Tico Seifert, Benedetta Spadaccini, Ad Stijnman, Zalina Tetermazova, Simon Turner, and Michael Twyman.
About Printing Colour 1700-1830
Printing Colour 1700-1830 offers a broad-ranging examination of the rich period of invention, experimentation and creativity surrounding colour printing in Europe between two critically important developments, four-color separation printing around 1710, and chromolithography around 1830. Its 28 field-defining contributions expand the corpus far beyond the beautiful, already well-studied images produced in European hubs like London and Paris.
Across 450 pages, and 350 color images, the chapters unveil the explosive growth in the production and marketing of colour prints at this pivotal moment. They address the numerous scientific and technological advances that fed the burgeoning popularity for such diverse colour-printed consumer goods as clothing, textiles, wallpapers, and ceramics. They recontextualize the rise in color-printed paper currencies, book endpapers and typography, and ephemera, including lottery tickets and advertisements.
This landmark volume launches colour printing of the long 18th century as an interdisciplinary field of study, opening new avenues for research across historical and scientific fields.