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682.02 Process and product > Cliché verre
           
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Cliché-verre[1] [Fr.] literally translated means "glass picture' and is a technique that combines art and photography and was used mainly by French artists including Jean Baptiste Corot,[2] Jean François Millet,[3] and Charles François Daubigny.[4] It was normally done by using a smoking candle to coat a glass plate with soot. The desired picture was then drawn with a sharp instrument directly into the blackened surface and the resulting plate was used as a photographic negative and contact printed.
Jean Baptiste Corot
Charles François Daubigny
Although mainly used in the 1860s the cliché verre technique has also be used by György Kepes[5], Man Ray[6] and Abelardo Morell.[7]
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Man Ray: Les vois lactées (1974)
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682.03 Process and product > Man Ray: Les vois lactées (1974)
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Footnotes
- Λ Elizabeth Glassman & Marilyn F. Symmes, 1980, Cliché-verre: Hand-Drawn, Light-Printed: A Survey of the Medium from 1839 to the Present, (Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts)
- Λ Gary Tinterow, 1996, Corot, (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Λ Alexandra R. Murphy, 1999, Jean-François Millet: Drawn Into the Light, (Yale University Press)
- Λ Michael Marlais, 2004, Valenciennes, Daubigny, and the Origins of French Landscape Painting, ( Pennsylvania State University Press)
- Λ G. Kepes, et al., 1995, Language of Vision: Fundamentals of Bauhaus Design, (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications) [Reprint]; Gyorgy Kepes, 1984, Light Graphics, (New York: International Center of Photography) isbn-10: 0933642059 isbn-13: 978-0933642058 [Exhibition catalogue]; Gyorgy Kepes, & Marjorie Supovitz (ed.), 1978, Gyorgy Kepes: The MIT Years 1945-1977, (The MIT Press)
- Λ In the Lempertz, Cologne, auction catalogue (28 Nobember 2104), Lot: 76 the portfolio Les vois lactées (1974, Turin: Edition Galleria Il Fauno) was listed that included 11 gelatin silver cliché verre prints by Man Ray. I'd be interested in any further details on this portfolio - alan@luminous-lint.com
- Λ Abelardo Morell: Cliché-verres
www.abelardomorell.net/posts/cliche-verres/
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General reading
Glassman, Elizabeth & Symmes, Marilyn F., 1980, Cliché-verre: Hand-Drawn, Light-Printed: A Survey of the Medium from 1839 to the Present, (Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts) [Δ]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
Jean Baptiste Corot (1796-1875) • Charles François Daubigny (1817-1878) • György Kepes (1906-2001) • Abelardo Morell (1948-) | Home > Techniques > Process and product > Cliché-verre
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