kamagraph

plural kamagraphs

1. The special press used to create reproductions by kamagraphy.

   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.

   2017 May 30, Alex De Vore, “3 Questions”, in Santa Fe Reporter

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   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.

   1967, Year Book Covering the Year 1968, page 131

   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.

   1982, -, Verbatim - Volume 9

2. A reproduction produced by this process.

   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.

   1967, Briton Hadden, Time - Volume 89, page 172

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   The procedure that Takis devised for moving the stiff pages of the book and the nails already fits the initial description of a multiple given by Franc5ois Barre/, in 1967, who applied it to small and medium runs (kamagraphs, multiples), mass produced work (design, graphics) and polycyclic structures (Eugenio Carmi): “The multiple is therefore essentially composite: it is a construction, it is a fixed or mobile system, sometimes the gernator of multiple combinations included in its design, which often make it a work of art."

   2016, Océane Delleaux, “Artists' Books to be Activated: Practices and Uses”, in The Shelf Journal #04