So we can all change our COAs to state:
"This print is being issued in a limited edition of 100, although the artist
or his/her heirs can issue additional limited editions of however many they
see fit, in any size or format, at any time, present or future, thus making
this a true limited edition of as many trillion people our earth will ever
hold to eternity and that will potentially buy a copy of this print."
How cool is that! And I can still call it a "limited edition" even though
there can potentially and legally be an unlimited/infinite number of copies.
Makes absolutely no sense to me but if it makes sense to everyone else here,
go with it.
I'm well aware of Thomas Kinkade and his incredible success. I am also aware
of the numerous law suits against the Kinkade publishing empire. Galleries
upon galleries have sued due to the semantics we are debating here, as they
were stuck with thousands of dollars of "limited editions" in their
inventory while the empire continued to print and print and print and print
more "limited editons" of variations upon variations of the original
"limited editions".
I find it quite interesting how semantics in the print industry have changed
with technology, as they must. Apparently the word "limited" doesn't mean
anything anymore since in "real life" any artist can print as many prints as
will sell in this lifetime or future lifetimes and still call it a limited
edition.
Maybe we are reverting to the origins of printmaking, when the Chinese and
Japanese would print woodblock prints without any intention of limiting the
edition at all. In fact, the origins of printmaking were more similar to the
Kinkade model, where the designer would simply create a design and a
"factory" of expert carvers and printers would produce the woodblock prints.
The difference is that those ancient prints were never called limited
editions. They indeed were never even actually "editioned" per se or
numbered at all. The concept just didn't exist in the beginning of
printmaking as it was simply a way to publish multiple works of art, more
akin to the art publishing industry today.
Woodblocks wore out and new ones were carved again and again until there was
no more demand for that particular print. Even today, the Hokusai family
continues to publish and sell very well original designs, re-carved and
re-printed with modern technology.
So maybe we've just come full circle and all that silly terminology needs to
be dropped from the artistic vocabulary, especially when it pertains to
multiples. I imagine more evolution will be inevitable.
Maria
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