kamagraphy

English

Etymology

From French kamagraphie. Attested from 1967.

Noun

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).

References

• “kamagraphy, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.