One of the highlights of Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe at the Block Museum is a series of dazzlingly elaborate etchings of complex geometrical shapes, found in the Alsdorf Gallery portion of the exhibition, by the German artist Jost Amman. The prints are plates from an influential book by Wenzel Jamnitzer, a promiment Nuremberg goldsmith, published in 1568. Northwestern University […]
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Our winter 2012 issue features interviews with Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge curator Susan Dackerman and Northwestern University art history professor Claudia Swan as well as information about the Block’s recent acquisition of 45 works by the Chicago Imagist Seymour Rosofosky. Download it here (pdf) Block Museum members will also receive the printed document […]
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Although organized by the Harvard Art Museums, the upcoming exhibition Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe has many other connections to Chicago besides its exhibiting partner the Block Museum. The exhibition catalogue includes essays by two area scholars—Suzanne Karr Schmidt, the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art […]
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