From the Renaissance era of the Fifteenth Century which witnessed the advent of the printed book to the Contemporary world of television and cybernetics, this course surveys the history of printmaking from the early woodblocks to the multimedia of today. It progresses along lines of materials and techniques, composition and design, and subject matter and contextual meanings. The "Masters" include Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Daumier, Whistler, Cassatt, Picasso, Kollwitz, Beckmann, Hayter, Rauschenburg and Johns. From the time of the American and French Revolutions it traces the developments of printmaking as an art of commentary in sight of the Industrial Revolution and its accompanying urbanization, mass warfare and psychology of accelerated individualism. Graphic expression of the latter permeates Modernism and Postmodernism at the beginning and end of the 20th century as the culminating theme of the course.