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Mayor, A. Hyatt (1971)
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Why were prints made? Who bought them? How did print publishers attract new publics? What printmakers discovered new ways of seeing? In this book such questions and some of their answers begin almost with the invention of paper in China and extend across time and the world to a consideration of the possibilities in printmaking today, this side of expressionism and abstraction. Besides evaluating more than 700 prints as works of art, A. Hyatt Mayor's far from conventional account of the medium points out precise effects of prints on literacy, commerce, science, fashions, religion, and political power—in short, it deals with prints' effects upon people, placing the art itself in the stream of life. In this it differs from earlier histories that concentrate on artistic merit and bibliographic data but seem little aware of the significance of the exactly repeated image as a communications device.
In the wealth of illustrations, a number the author has chosen, the creations of obscure artists, are bound to astonish, no matter how wide the readers familiarity with prints may be. This is because the book is concerned above all with the work of innovators, not later refinings of their innovations by more celebrated hands.
Replete with information so precisely, even wittily, put that it will delight anyone, Prints and People is offered as the writing down of a professional lifetime of thought and experience—the author, now Curator Emeritus, having joined the Metropolitan Museums Department of Prints in 1932.
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Barnhart, Richard, Marilynn Johnson Bordes, Richard Ettinghausen, Everett Fahy, Henry Geldzahler, Mary Glaze, Maxwell Hearn, Colta Ives, Phyllis D. Massar, A. Hyatt Mayor, Douglas Newton, Harvey Stahl, Marie Swietochowski, and Renata Villein. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 30, no. 5 (April-May, 1972). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. See more
Gardner, Albert TenEyck, A. Hyatt Mayor, and James J. Rorimer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 24, no. 1 (Summer, 1965). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965. See more
Karpinski, Caroline, A. Hyatt Mayor, and Edith A. Standen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 23, no. 3 (November, 1964). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964. See more
Karpinski, Caroline, A. Hyatt Mayor, and John J. McKendry. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 22, no. 6 (February, 1964). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "'The Met' from the Inside." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 24, no. 1 (Summer, 1965). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "A Bequest of Prints by Callot and Daumier." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 17, no. 1 (Summer, 1958). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "A Gift of Currier & Ives Lithographs." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 10, no. 9 (May, 1952). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1952. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "A Modern Artist of the Eighteenth Century [Alexander Cozens]." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 12, no. 4 (December, 1953). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1953. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Alive, Alive, O." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 11, no. 6 (February, 1953). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1953. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Artists as Anatomists." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 22, no. 6 (February, 1964). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Carpentry and Candlelight in the Theater." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 1, no. 6 (February, 1943). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Change and Permanence in Men's Clothes." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 8, no. 9 (May, 1950). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Children Are What We Make Them." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 15, no. 7 (March, 1957). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Collectors at Home." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 16, no. 3 (November, 1957). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Goya's Creativeness." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 5, no. 4 (December, 1946). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1946. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Hokusai." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 43, no. 1 (Summer, 1985). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Italian Prints." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 19, no. 7 (March, 1961). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1961. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Italian XVIII Century Book Illustration." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 8, no. 5 (January, 1950). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Jefferson's Enjoyment of the Arts." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 2, no. 4 (December, 1943). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Lithographs." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 7, no. 3 (November, 1948). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1948. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Northern Gothic Prints." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 6, no. 6 (February, 1948). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1948. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Old Calling Cards." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 2, no. 2 (October, 1943). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Old London." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 3, no. 9 (May, 1945). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Photographs by Eakins and Degas." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 3, no. 1 (Summer, 1944). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Prints Acquired in 1949." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 8, no. 6 (February, 1950). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Prints Recently Acquired." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 18, no. 10 (June, 1960). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1960. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Prints and People." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 3 (1970). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Prints in Elizabethan Poetry." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 23, no. 3 (November, 1964). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Queen Elizabeth's Prayers." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 1, no. 8 (April, 1943). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Rembrandt and the Bible." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 36, no. 3 (Winter, 1978–1979). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Rembrandt from Prints and People." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 30, no. 5 (April–May, 1972). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Rembrandt in Italy." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 1, no. 2 (October, 1942). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Renaissance pamphleteers, Savonarola and Luther." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 6, no. 2 (October, 1947). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1947. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Rowlandson's England." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 20, no. 6 (February, 1962). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "The Art of the Counter Reformation." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 4, no. 4 (December, 1945). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "The Artists for Victory Exhibition." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 1, no. 4 (December, 1942). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "The Bibiena Family." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 4, no. 1 (Summer, 1945). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "The First Famous Print." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 9, no. 3 (November, 1950). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "The First Victorian Photograher [David Octavius Hill]." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 17, no. 4 (December, 1958). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "The Gifts That Made The Museum." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 16, no. 3 (November, 1957). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "The Photographic Eye." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 5, no. 1 (Summer, 1946). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1946. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "The Theater in France." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 14, no. 2 (October, 1955). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1955. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "The World of Atget." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 10, no. 6 (February, 1952). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1952. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Toulouse-Lautrec." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 10, no. 3 (November, 1951). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1951. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Visions and Visionaries." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 5, no. 6 (February, 1947). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1947. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "William Mills Ivins, Jr., 1881-1961." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 21, no. 6 (February, 1963). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. Goya: 67 Drawings. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974. See more
Mayor, A. Hyatt. Prints and People: A Social History of Printed Pictures. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. See more