Kamagraph

Quick meaning: Kamagraph is a noun meaning The special press used to create reproductions by kamagraphy.

Meaning

The special press used to create reproductions by kamagraphy.

More Meanings

1. A reproduction produced by this process.

Example Sentences

A kamagraph is this old French press from the 1880s that could duplicate original art, but 99 percent of the time it would destroy the original.

Each kamagraph looks as though the artist had painted it by hand. The French call this type of work a “multi-original,” because the machine can work only with a painting painted for it on a specially treated canvas plaque.

I learned from this book, for instance, that kamagraph is a name for a 'special printing press that faithfully duplicates up to 250 copies of a painting, including raised brush strokes, destroying the original in the process.

Max Emst, the well-known dada and surrealist painter; Edouard Pignon, a French abstractionist; and the late René Magritte, the extraordinary Belgian surrealist who died this year, have all executed special work for the kamagraph.

Word Forms

• kamagraphs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include kamagraphy, cyanograph, rotogravure, copygraph, photogravure, photogram.

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