The "writing" of modern life
Subtitle: the etching revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940
By: Beth Helsinger ... [et al.].
Contributors: Helsinger, Elizabeth K., 1943-; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art.
Publisher: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9780935573459
Subjects: David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art -- Exhibitions; Etching -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Etching -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Etching -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Nov. 18, 2008-Apr. 12, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgments; title: The new language of etching in nineteenth-century England / Martha Tedeschi; title: Seduced by the etcher's needle : French writers and the graphic arts in nineteenth-century France / Anna Arnar; title: Toward a Gothic vision / Peyton Skipwith; title: The "writing" of modern life / Elizabeth Helsinger; title: Process, experimentation, and la belle "preuve"  / Alison Morehead; title: Catalogue entries on F'lix Bracquemond, the upper part of a door, and F'lix Buhot,a landing in England; title: Catalogue entries / Eerin Nerstad; title: Checklist of the exhibition.