MoMA To Present PRINT OUT 2/19/2012

The Museum of Modern Art presents Print/Out, a major survey of prints, books, multiples, and ephemera that examines the evolution of artistic practices related to the print medium over the last two decades. The exhibition will be on view from February 19 to May 14, 2012, in The International Council of the Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, as well as the Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries. Bringing together approximately 200 works drawn substantially from MoMA's extensive collection of prints and books, the exhibition also includes the addition of several important loans from private and public collections. Print/Out is the third in a series of large print surveys periodically organized by the Museum's Department of Prints and Illustrated Books in order to assess the current state of the medium. The last two exhibitions were Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, organized by Riva Castleman in 1980, and Thinking Print: Books to Billboards: 1980-1995, organized by Deborah Wye in 1996. The exhibition is organized by Christophe Cherix, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art.

From the resurgence of ancient printmaking techniques, often used today alongside digital technologies, to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artists' books and ephemera, prints-both in innovative and traditional forms-have played a key role in an exchange of ideas and information. Instead of simply defining contemporary prints through their modes of fabrication or degrees of multiplication, this exhibition will examine the functions that prints have served in the past, and how, over the last two decades, these traditional roles have been developed and expanded upon in line with some of the most innovative art practices of our time.

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