KEYNOTE: The first monograph dedicated to the renowned artist's powerful and diverse prints. Exhibition Itinerary: Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University January 29?May 29, 2011. Perhaps best known for her considerable body of paintings, Joan Snyder is also an accomplished printmaker, freely experimenting with a wide variety of techniques. This catalogue to be the first retrospective exhibition of Snyder's prints presents more than 110 works that reflect her approach to the medium and explores aspects of nature as well as sexuality, intimacy, violence, and death. Infusing her prints with vibrant energy and colour, Snyder employs and combines an array of techniques using etching, woodcut, lithography, monotype, and digital processes. Many of her prints are enhanced by colourful applications of paint and pastel. This volume features rare uneditioned prints, unique hand-coloured monoprints, and outstanding examples of editioned prints with selected variant impressions or working proofs. The works date from her earliest woodcut portraits, executed during her student years, to her most recent prints. Also included in the book are two essays. One interprets her graphic imagery, the other traces Snyder's life as an artist while presenting a chronology of her prints. AUTHORS: Marilyn Symmes is the Director of the Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts and the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Faye Hirsch is an eminent contemporary arts writer and senior editor at Art in America. ILLUSTRATIONS 166 images *
