edition

(noun)

in printmaking, the number of prints struck from one plate, usually at the same time; the whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time

Related Terms

Examples of edition in the following topics:

  • Der Blaue Reiter

    • Der Blaue Reiter Almanach (The Blue Rider Almanac) was published in early 1912, in an edition of 1100 copies.
    • The volume was edited by Kandinsky and Marc and contained reproductions of more than 140 artworks, and 14 major articles.
    • Instead, a second edition of the original was printed in 1914.

  • German Woodcuts

    • These were typically of a relatively low artistic standard, but were seen all over Europe, with the woodblocks often being lent to printers of editions in other cities or languages.

  • Vorticism

    • The Vorticists published two issues of the literary magazine BLAST, edited by Lewis, in June 1914 and July 1915 .

  • Identification and Art

    • Mâle's l'Art religieux du XIIIe siècle en France (originally 1899, with revised editions; translated into English as The Gothic Image, Religious Art in France) of the Thirteenth Century has remained continuously in print.
    • Émile Mâle was a specialist in Christian religious art, and authored l'Art religieux du XIIIe siècle en France (originally 1899, with revised editions; translated into English as The Gothic Image, Religious Art in France).

  • Block Books

    • These books were aimed at a general audience and were often popular titles, nearly always religious in nature, and sometimes reprinted into multiple editions.
    • It was reprinted in several editions with different illustrations.

  • Video Art

    • Many artists found video more appealing than film, particularly when the medium's greater accessibility was coupled with technologies able to edit or modify the video image.

  • Making "Artistic" Photographs

    • As printing technologies have improved, a photographer's art prints reproduced in a finely-printed limited-edition book have now become an area of strong interest to collectors.

  • Photography

    • Among the methods used were soft focus; special filters and lens coatings; burning, dodging and/or cropping in the darkroom to edit the content of the image; and alternative printing processes such as sepia toning, carbon printing, platinum printing or gum bichromate processing.

  • Drypoint

    • Because the pressure of printing quickly destroys the burr, drypoint is useful only for comparatively small editions; as few as ten or twenty impressions can be made before the burr is destroyed.

  • Philosophy and Science

    • This was edited by Denis Diderot, with contributions from hundreds of leading philosophers and intellectuals .