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its industrial/commercial applications that whatever it was it would never scale the
heights of the true fine arts – painting, sculpture and architecture, of course.
We know, of course, that this is not the case. We accept that the print medium
has not only expanded our experiences of art, but that it has also opened its
market. We see the screenprints of Andy Warhol, the transfer prints of Roy
Lichtenstein, and the etchings of Kiki Smith as works that assert the primacy and
the possibility of modern and contemporary printmaking.
I begin here because it is from this framework that Currency Part 1: Modes of
Expression was conceived. When Derek Cracco first posited the idea, it was