<i>“L’outil des imaginations primesautières”</i>: The Rise of Drypoint in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Diplôme Thèse <i>“L’outil des imaginations primesautières”</i>: The Rise of Drypoint in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century eng 2025-05-24 2025-05-24 author Belyaeva Anastasia 902848 director Gamboni Dario Libero 135556 Unité d'histoire de l'art (ART1) director Stauffer Marie Theres 0009-0002-5484-6469 732890 Moyens communs Histoire de l'Art et Musicologie (ARMCO) 567 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:186003 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1860036 L. 1178 This doctoral dissertation presents a novel methodology of focusing on one artistic medium and treating it as an agent of the creative process. It explores the revival of drypoint technique in the nineteenth century, bringing together the methods of technical art history and printmaking studies. The central question of the dissertation is “Why did drypoint become popular in the second half of the nineteenth century”, to which an answer is sought by looking into the historical context, the personalities involved, and the artworks they produced. I regard the exploration of drypoint not only as technical analysis, aimed at understanding how prints were made, but as an attempt to reconstruct the relationship between artist and medium. In other words, by studying making, I explore how drypoint’s aesthetics and working method corresponded to the various interests of the artists who used it, such as their aesthetic concepts, creative agendas, and career aspirations. Print Printmaking Drypoint Technique Technical art history Agency Making Dewey 700 91 Département d'histoire de l'art et de musicologie 3I false 98fc9d64-76ef-44ee-8262-f2b87b9fb0c0 Unité d'histoire de l'art 7d21c977-7041-4fd1-b9ae-7e135a0f7577 Thesis Private Dissertation_A.Belyaeva_UniGe_Open_.pdf 9135283 application/pdf 806df103a3fb3c3bb6d47845f2023c22d2a81931f8c16e45201cb4945ed6808f fe60ddef-86d7-42d0-a598-60d48779efe6 Imprimatur Public Imprimatur_BELYAEVA.pdf 53238 application/pdf 0fdf5471370a84070cdbb05b3e30ead624fef9ed06fcae49a40ed88a8cefbdf5 closedAccess Faculté des lettres / Département d'histoire de l'art et de musicologie

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