Department of Social scienceBy :

DR.M.VENKATESAN

PRINT CULTURE AND THE MODERN WORLD

PAAVAI VIDYASHRAM CBSE

CLASS : X

BEFORE THE EVOLUTION OF THE PRINT

EARLIEST FORM OF WRITING AND PAINTING

PRINTING IN THE WORLD• 594 AD : Earliest printing technology

in the form of woodblock printing 1st started in China . • They were printed by rubbing paper

against the inked surface of Woodblocks .• Superbly skilled crafts men could

duplicated with remarkable accuracy the beauty of Calligraphy .

JAPANESE BOOK

• 768 to 770 AD : Buddhist missionaries from China Introduced hand –printing technology into Japan .

• 868 AD : The oldest Japanese book , printed in 868 AD is the Buddhist Diamond Suthra , containing 6 sheets of text and woodcut illustrations .

THE FIRST PRINTED BOOKS

FROM AD 594 ONWARDSCALLIGRAPHY

CHINA INTRODUCED HAND PRINTING TECHNOLOGY INTO JAPAN

768 -770 AD

JAPANESE BOOK A PAGE FROM THE DIAMOND SUTRA

868 AD

AN UKIYO PRINT BY KITAGAWA UTAMARO

11TH CENTURY EUROPE • CHINESE PAPER REACHED EUROPE VIA FOR THE

CENTURIES ,SILK AND SPICES FROM CHINA FLOWED INTO EUROPE THROUGH THE SILK ROUTE.

• 1295. A.D PRINT COMES TO EUROPE • MARCO POLO, A GREAT EXPLORER, RETURNED TO

ITALY AFTER MANY YEARSOF EXPLORATION IN CHINA.• HE BROUGHT THE TECHNOLOGY OF WOODLOCK

PRINTING BACK WITH HIM.• VELLUM WAS STILL THE PERFERRED MATERIAL FOR

PRINTING.• PRINTED BOOKS WERE CONSIDERED AS CHEAP

VULGARITIES VELLUM IS A PARCHMENT MSDE FROM THE SKIN OF ANIMALS .

UKIYO PRINT BY SHUNMANKUBO,LATE 18TH CENTURY

A MORNING SCENE

• 1448 A.D GUTENBERG • HE USED THE OLIVE AS THE MODEL FOR

PRINITING PRSS AND USED THE MOULDS FOR CASTING THE METAL TYPES FOR THE LETTER . GUTENBERG PEREFECTYED THE SYSTEM BY 1448.

• THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED BY HIM WAS THE BIBLE .

• ABOUT 180 COPIES WERE PRINTED AND IT TOOK 3 YEARS TO PRODUCE THEM.

• A great explorer in 1295 – Italy

A PORTRAIT OF JOHN GUTENBERGPRINTING PRESS IN 1430

DEVELOPMENT OF GUTENBERG PRINTING PRESS

PRINT TECHNOLOGY NEXT 300 YEARS

WODDEN BLOCK’STECHNOLOGY

• MARTIN LUTHER 95 THESES IN 1517 .

A PRINTER’S WORK SHOP 16TH CENTURY

THE MACABRA DANCE16TH CENTURY

EARLY MODERN EUROPE1739.

BEFORE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

ADVIRTISMENTS AT RAILWAY STATION IN ENGLAND 1874

INDIA & THE WORLD OF PRINT

RELEGIOUS

DIWAN

GHOR KALAI WOODEN CUT LATE 19 CEN

RAJARAVI VARMA MYTHOLOGICAL PAINTING

PRINT AND CENSORSHIP

• The religious text encouraged discussions debates