by Venkatesan archaeologist

1. Department of Social science
By :
DR.M.VENKATESAN
PRINT CULTURE AND
THE MODERN WORLD
CLASS : X

2. BEFORE THE EVOLUTION OF THE PRINT
EARLIEST FORM OF WRITING AND PAINTING

4. 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 .

5. 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 .

6. THE FIRST PRINTED BOOKS
FROM AD 594 ONWARDS
CALLIGRAPHY

7. CHINA INTRODUCED HAND
PRINTING TECHNOLOGY INTO JAPAN
768 -770 AD
JAPANESE BOOK A PAGE
FROM THE DIAMOND SUTRA
868 AD

8. AN UKIYO PRINT BY KITAGAWA
UTAMARO

9. 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 .

10. UKIYO PRINT BY SHUNMANKUBO,
LATE 18TH CENTURY
A MORNING SCENE

11. • 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.

12. • A great
explorer in
1295 – Italy

13. A PORTRAIT OF JOHN GUTENBERG
PRINTING PRESS IN 1430

14. DEVELOPMENT OF GUTENBERG
PRINTING PRESS

15. PRINT TECHNOLOGY NEXT 300 YEARS

16. WODDEN BLOCK’S
TECHNOLOGY

17. • MARTIN LUTHER 95 THESES IN 1517 .

18. A PRINTER’S WORK SHOP
16TH CENTURY

19. THE MACABRA DANCE
16TH CENTURY

21. EARLY MODERN EUROPE
1739.

22. BEFORE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

24. ADVIRTISMENTS AT RAILWAY STATION
IN ENGLAND 1874

25. INDIA & THE WORLD OF PRINT

26. RELEGIOUS

27. DIWAN

28. GHOR KALAI WOODEN CUT
LATE 19 CEN

29. RAJARAVI VARMA
MYTHOLOGICAL PAINTING

30. PRINT AND CENSORSHIP

44. • The religious text encouraged
discussions debates