Benutzerspezifische Werkzeuge

Aus Anlass der Vergabe des Wolfgang-Ratjen-Preises 2025

Prints are unlike paintings and drawings in that they usually have texts – often a considerable amount of lettering. The relationship of these texts to the image they accompany is often problematic, and many prints have been misinterpreted and misunderstood. This lecture will discuss a number of specific cases, and explain the many factors which might lie behind the creation of misleading texts and images. The tendentious image and text is not a modern invention.

 
Antony Griffiths: Educated at Christ Church, Oxford 1970-4 (Literae Humaniores, ie classical languages and philosophy) and the Courtauld Institute, University of London 1974-6 (MA in the History of Art). Joined the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum in 1976. Deputy Keeper in 1981 and Keeper in 1991. Retired in 2011. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000. Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University 2015. Currently working on the provenance of the Ethnographic collections in the British Museum.
Main publications ‘Prints and Printmaking’, 1980, and ‘The print before photography’, 2016. Also author (often joint) of many exhibition catalogues and numerous articles, mostly in ‘Print Quarterly’. Chairman of Print Quarterly Publications.

[Caption: Le Calculateur Patriote, manière de lavis. 178 x 120mm. Published directly after the Fall of the Bastille in 1789 (British Museum)]

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The event will take place in a hybrid format. Further information will follow.