Volume 13, Number 11 · December 18, 1969
The Beholder's Eye
By Francis Haskell
Prints and Visual Communication
by William Ivins Jr.
MIT Press, 324 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Prints and Books: Informal Papers
by William Ivins Jr.
Da Capo Press, 375 pp., $10.00
Notes on Prints
by William Ivins Jr.
Da Capo Press, 194, 92 illustrations pp., $12.50
How Prints Look, Photographs with a Commentary
by William Ivins Jr.
Beacon, 164, 92 illustrations pp., $1.95
William Ivins, Jr. was curator of prints at the Metropolitan Museum from 1916 until 1946. During that time he built up the remarkable collections that can be seen there today, and he wrote a large number of prefaces to exhibition catalogues, as well as other, occasional pieces, which were later collected and published, and have now been reissued. At their best these are very good indeed, extraordinarily fresh and perceptive as well as beautifully written, and it is good that they have been made available again. But it is, perhaps, only with hindsight that one can appreciate that these little essays on 'A Print by Rembrandt' or 'Prints of English Landscapes' were preparing the way for one of the most stimulating and influential recent contributions to our thinking and feeling about art: Prints and Visual Communication (1953).
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