First Blog

1) Gutenberg's press sped up and cut the cost of mass producing, storing, and spreading information. This lead to increased knowledge in the lower class and the spread of information from nation to nation.

2) These advancements continue to effect modern art works by allowing the idea that something printed could be spread from one person in one culture to millions of every culture.

3) Both a photocopier and a letter press can both mass produce images. Photocopier art would have been influenced by the the letterpress because the letterpress was a way of reproducing a print, the photocopier is a way of reproducing any image. They are different because the letterpress can be altered to create a new image, the photocopier can only copy an existing image.

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Corybantic: Chaotic

Disingenuous: Untrue

Sacrilege: The violation of anything sacred

Viscous: Thickness