Appel à contribution : « Printing surfaces / Surfaces d’impression », Lyon, CIHA, 23-28 juin 2024, date limite le 15 septembre 2023
In all art history fields based on printed material, research conventionally focuses on the images, and other information that was printed. The objects used to produce that information (including cut woodblocks, engraved metal plates, and lithographic stones) have been neglected. Many hundreds of thousands of these historical printing surfaces survive today in the East as in the West. As relics of historical crafts and industry, they fall outside the modern disciplines, and the vast majority...