Quill, Wax, Knife
Adam Smyth: Collier’s Letter Racks, 18 July 2013
Mr Collier’s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art & Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
by Dror Wahrman.
Oxford, 275 pp., £22.95, November 2012,978 0 19 973886 1 Show More
by Dror Wahrman.
Oxford, 275 pp., £22.95, November 2012,
“... bound up with form – and, in particular, the question of what happens when an image (of a king, for example) is mediated three or four times. It is in part why Collier seems to speak to our contemporary moment. His Trompe l’Oeil with Print of Charles I after van Dyck is an oil painting of a mezzotint print of part ... ”