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.Hardback | 344 pages256.54 x 302.26 x 40.64mm | 2?449.39g39675National Gallery of AustraliaCanberra? AustraliaEnglish