From 'Beer Street' to the 'Apocalypse': Intaglio Printmaking as New (Old) Media - Dr. Suzanne Bailey
- Date: Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Building: Bagnani Hall
Within the spaces of modernism and in modernist studies more broadly, the studio of Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) had a crucial yet still under-recognized function as a site of experimentation centred on burin engraving and other forms of intaglio printmaking. Suzanne Bailey will discuss her current research on Hayter’s Paris studio and his Canadian students, focusing on Hayter’s reinvention of engraving as a medium of original artistic expression. Her talk will trace the history of engraving, from its role in early book illustration to Hayter’s modernist appropriation of this historical technique.
Suzanne Bailey is Professor in the Department of English at Trent. Her current research project is entitled “Lines: Atelier 17, the Art of the Print, and Canadian Modernism,” and focuses on the intaglio printmaking, print culture, and the travels of Canadian artists to Paris in the 1950s and 60s.
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Catherine O'Brien
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Posted on January 11, 2018