kamagraphy

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English

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Etymology

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From French kamagraphie. Attested from 1967.

Noun

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kamagraphy (uncountable)

  1. A process for making copies of paintings that are painted on a pretreated canvas using a special press, which reproduces the texture of the brushstrokes as well as the colour, but destroys the original in the process.
    • 1967, Art International, volume 11, page 94:
      Kamagraphy, as the new technique is called, enables the printer to reproduce both the colour and the three-dimensional characteristics of the brush-stroke
    • 1993, René Magritte, David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield, Oil paintings, objects and bronzes, 1949-1967, page 435:
      Here is what we have learned about kamagraphy (the process is only valid for canvases about to be painted and not for the reproduction of those which already exist).

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