Making Prints and Thinking about It - Edition Angewandte by Jan Svenungsson Hardcover

About the Book

The book presents the entire graphic works of the artist Jan Svenungsson, who has been responsible Graphics and Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna since 2011, accompanied by a text that seamlessly combines practical information, stories and speculations in an entertaining way. His overarching objective is to critically discuss the meaning of graphic prints in contemporary art, and more specifically: to illuminate the role of single-handedly "making" them - at a time when the conditions for exercising creativity are undergoing rapid change: What are the implications of the tools the artist selects? What does authenticity mean in today's art? How does the role of the artist change when he makes himself dependent on artificial intelligence?--

Book Synopsis

Das Buch präsentiert sämtliche druckgrafische Werk des Künstlers Jan Svenungssons, der seit 2011 für Druckgrafik an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien verantwortlich ist, begleitet von einem Text, in dem sich praktische Informationen, Erzählungen und Spekulationen ebenso reibungslos wie unterhaltsam mischen.

Sein übergeordnetes Ziel ist es, die Bedeutung von Druckgrafik in der Gegenwartskunst kritisch zu diskutieren und noch spezifischer: die Rolle des eigenhändigen "Making" (des Machens) zu beleuchten - in einer Zeit, in der sich Bedingungen für das Ausüben von Kreativität rasch verändern: Welche Auswirkungen hat die Wahl der Werkzeuge des Künstlers? Was bedeutet Authentizität in die heutigen Kunst? Wie verändert sich die Rolle des Künstlers, wenn er sich von künstlicher Intelligenz abhängig macht?

Review Quotes

"Hard to categorize, this deft book by the Swedish artist Jan Svenungsson should be read by everyone involved with contemporary prints, whether as makers or viewers. [...] This attentiveness to multiple levels of meaning extends to the book's design, which is so graceful it is easy to overlook how clever it is." (Susan Tallman in Art in Print, 2019)

"The book presents the entire graphic works of the artis Jan Svenungsson accompanied by a text that seamlessy combines practical information, stories and speculations in an entertaining way." (In GRABADO Y EDICIÓN, 01.2022)

About the Author

Jan Svenungsson, visual artist, Head of Graphics and Printmaking Department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna