Works by Picasso, Matisse, Vuillard and Chagall sit alongside prints by German artists Franz Marc and Otto Dix, Italian artist De Chirico, and the Russian-born El Lissitzky. From America are prints by Edward Hopper and Martin Lewis.

DRAWING ON THE V&a'S magnificent collection of twentieth-century prints, this history of printmaking is seen through the work of internationally renowned artists - all of whom relished the print medium as an important form of expression.

Each year of the twentieth century is represented by a print or set of prints, ranging from an exquisite photogravure by Frederick Evans of Lincoln Cathedral (1900),to Shroud (2000), an image of Lee Wagstaff screen-printed in his own blood.

From the first half of the twentieth-century, British etchers such as Walter Sickert and Augustus John are included, while Paul Nash and Eric Gill exemplify the 1920s-30s fashion for wood-engraving. Works by Picasso, Matisse, Vuillard and Chagall sit alongside prints by German artists Franz Marc and Otto Dix, Italian artist De Chirico, and the Russian-born El Lissitzky. From America are prints by Edward Hopper and Martin Lewis.

In the period after the Second World War, the scale and ambition of prints began to rival contemporary paintings. This book includes key American exponents such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein,Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and RB.Kitaj. British artists, including Richard Hamilton, David Hockney,Bridget Riley, Eduardo Paolozzi and Patrick Caulfield,were also pushing forward the boundaries of the fine art print, and their works are well represented here.

An exciting new dimension to this book's choice of prints has been added by the V&A's policy of acquiring work by artists from culturally diverse communities.Continuing the twentieth-century's tradition of experiment, the ever-increasing diversity of printmaking poses intriguing questions as to how the fine art print might develop in the current millennium.

Introduction

by Susan Lambert

Impressions

1900 Frederick H. Evans, Lincoln Cathedral. Stairway in Southwest Turret

1901 Jack B. Yeats, The Pugilist

1902 Edvard Munch, The Kiss

1903 Kthe Kollwitz, Arbeiterfrau

1904 Pabto Picasso, Le Repas frugal or L'Aveugle

1905 Augustus John, Jacob Epstein (1905-6)

1906 Henri Matisse, Nu de profil sur une chaise Iongue (Le Grand Bois)

1907 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Man with Pipe

1908 Walter Sickert, La Belle Gt6e or The Camden Town Murder

1909 Theodore Roussel, The Snow. My front garden, March 2nd 1909

1910 Gerald Spencer Pryse, "Workless'/Landless'/'Forward! The Day Is Breaking!"

1911 Paul Klee, Bahnhof

1912 Franz Marc, Schlafende Hirtin

1913 Joseph Pennell, The New Bay of Baiae

1914 F.L. Griggs, Ashwell

1915 Edward Wadsworth, Facade (1914-15)

1916 Robert Gibbings, The Retreat from Serbia

1917 C.R.W. Nevinson, Banking at 4,000 Feet

t918 C.R.W. Nevinson, From an Office Window

1919 Margarete Hamerschlag, Raskolnikoff in Dialogue with the Judge

1920 Kurt Schwitters, Merz 8 - Die Kathedrale

1921 Edward Hopper, The Evening Wind

1922 Otto Dix, Dompteuse

1923 El Lissitzky, Proun III

1924 Paul Nash, Genesis, The Void

1925 Henri Matisse, Odalisque a la coupe de fruits

1926 Eric Gill, Eve

1927 Eric Ravilious, Boy Birdsnesting

1928 Ben Nicholson, Three Mugs and a Bowl

1929 Cyril Power, The Tube Staircase

1930 David Jones, The Wounded Knight

1931 Graham Sutherland, The Garden

1932 Georges Braque, Hera et Themis(1932-9)

1933 Lill Tschudi, Ice Hockey

1934 Louis Marcoussis, Rosemonde

1935 Gertrude Hermes, Autumn Fruits

1936 Anthony Gross, La Maison du Poete

1937 Edouard Vuillard, Le Square Vintimille

1938 Edward Ardizzone, The Bus Stop

1939 Martin Lewis, Shadow Magic

1940 John Piper, Byland Abbey

1941 Giorgio de Chirico e le stelle del cielo cadderro sulla terra

1942 Pablo Picasso, L'Autruche

1943 Leon Underwood, Harvest Corn

1944 Josef AIbers, Tlaloc

1945 Jean Dubuffet, Paysage (1944-5)

1946 Giorgio Morandi, Large Circular Still Life with a Bottle and Three Objects

1947 Barnett Freedman, People

1948 Man Ray, Roman noir

1949 Keith Vaughan, Landscape

1950 Michael Rothenstein, The Cockerel

1951 Peter Lanyon, Underground

1952 Marc Chagall, Le Loup et la Cigogne

1953 John Minton, Dressing Rooms at Whitehall

1954 Ben Shahn, Alphabet (c. 1954)

1955 Naum Gabo, Opus 6 (1955-6)

1956 Edward Bawden, Town Hall Yard

1957 Eduardo Paolozzi, Automobile Head(1954-7)

1958 Joan Mir6, Les Forestiers

1959 Andre Masson, Couple aux fleurettes

1960 Sam Francis, The White Line

1961 Yozo Hamaguchi, Black Cherry(c. 1960-61 )

1962 David Hockney, The Diploma

1963 Richard Hamilton, Adonis in Y Fronts(1962-3)

1964 Roy Lichtenstein, Cram Now, Mes Petits Pour La France!

1965 Jim Dine, Eleven Part Self Portrait (Red Pony) (1964-5)

1966 Victor Vasarely, Zett-R. G

1967 Andy Warhol, Marilyn

1968 Richard Hamilton, The critic laughs

1969 Patrick Caulfield, Two Jugs

1970 R.B. Kitaj, Transition

1971 Josef Beuys, Druckl

1972 Bridget Riley, Coloured Greys III

1973 Brice Marden, Untitled

1974 Robert Rauschenberg, Pull

1975 Marcel Broodthaers, La Soupe de Daguerre

1976 Claes Oldenburg, Soft Screw in Waterfall

1977 Gavin Jantjes, Freedom Hunters

1978 Conrad Atkinson, Anniversary Print: From the People Who Brought You Thalidomide ...

1979 Daniel Buren, Framed Exploded Defaced

1980 Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj

1981 Georg Baselitz, The Eagle

1982 Howard Hodgkin, Bleeding

1983 Hamish Fulton, Humming Heart

1984 Francesco Clemente, Untitled

1985 Helen Chadwick, Vanitas

1986 Richard Long, Africa Footprints

1987 Peter Howson, The Heroic Dosser

1988 Anish Kapoor, Untitled

1989 Paula Rego, Three Blind Mice

1990 Antony Gormley, Untitled

1991 Ruslan Kotev, The Tower of the Tempest

1992 Chris Ofili, To T from B with L

1993 Anonymous, after Barbara Kruger, Carrier Bag from the Barcelona Department Store, Vinon (c. 1993)

1994 Rene Green, Untitled

1995 Tayo Quaye, The Man

1996 Tim Mara, Lightbulb and Book (1995-6)

1997 Virgil Marti, Bullies (1992-7)

1998 Sonia Boyce, Lover's Rock

1999 Langlands & Bell, Frozen Sky (Night & Day)

2000 Lee Wagstaff, Shroud

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