This volume follows printmaking through a seventy-year period, from the
latter part of the ninteenth century as the print, freed from its
reproductive bonds, became a vehicle for pure artistic expression;
through the great social and political traumas of the first half of the
twentieth century, when the print was co-opted to carry a political
message; and concludes in the immediate postwar years with prints that
signal the artists' seach for meaning and an awareness of self.