NEW LIBRARY BOOKS ON PRINTMAKING
This manual presents a
comprehensive and detailed approach to making etchings safely. It is based on
the methods employed and taught by New Grounds. We are grateful for all the
wonderful successes and mistakes New Grounds artists have produced in the
course of almost two decades that have greatly contributed to the knowledge
base of this book. With detailed lists, step-by-step instructions and
troubleshooting sections, this book offers valuable information for etchers on
all levels. It is invaluable for those wishing to make the transition from
toxic to non-toxic etching, and it is suited as a textbook for a college level
etching class.
This groundbreaking book
establishes Post-Digital Printmaking as a distinct area of printmaking practice
both technically and conceptually. Radically different from digital print
production (inkjet on high-quality paper), Post-Digital Printmaking integrates
Computer Numeric Control (CNC) devices such as laser cutters and CNC routers
with matrix production for lithography, intaglio and relief. This contemporary
practice incorporates the strengths of both digital and traditional, resulting
in hybrid printmaking techniques. A comprehensive and accessible technical
introduction to this important area of printmaking, this book explains
techniques and processes in detail, discusses the contexts within which
Post-Digital Printmaking has arisen, and includes examples and case studies of
artists applying these hybrid techniques in their work.
This exciting new book
showcases the work of a very diverse selection of 52 artists from 28 countries,
against a spectrum of the concerns that inform the role and function of art in
the increasingly technological global society. The mediums used by these artists
range from new variations on traditional intaglio and relief techniques, to
extreme forms of digital techniques, including time-based forms such as film
and multi-media presentation. Printmaking continues to evolve as artists
develop the traditional techniques and experiment with new techniques and
materials. In recent years the boundaries between the once distinct fields of
the visual arts have become blurred, and growing numbers of artists now
incorporate printmaking techniques within their practice. This book provides a
broad-ranging and challenging source of information on the most exciting
cutting edge developments in international printmaking, which will be of value
to students, professional artists and all those with an interest in the
contemporary visual arts.
This all-in-one guide to
printmaking techniques is a complete technical and inspirational book on the
history and contemporary processes for relief, intaglio, lithography,
serigraphy, mixed media/transfers and post digital graphics, with extended
profiles of a wide range of contemporary printmakers.
Printmaking is a practical
and comprehensive guide to printmaking techniques. This fully updated edition
includes expanded chapters on digital and mixed media processes, and a brand
new 'Print & Make' chapter, which explores the opportunities for creative expression
within the many processes available to print makers. The more traditional
techniques of relief, intaglio, collograph, lithography, screen printing and
monoprint have also been refreshed with the addition of new images showing a
broader range of subject matter, including more contemporary prints and
international artists. Each technique is explored from the development of the
printing or digital matrix, through the different stages of creation to image
output. Guidance on how to set up a print studio, sections on troubleshooting
techniques and the inclusion of up-to-date lists of suppliers, workshops and
galleries make this an essential volume for beginner and experienced
printmakers alike.
In this book, Alexia Tala
explores and investigates the new experimental forms of printmaking, which are
today pushing the traditional boundaries of this technique in contemporary art.
These include the usage of photo-emulsion, glass and paper, Perspex and paint
stripper, printing with sand and digital prints mounted on relief surfaces.
This volume also considers the role of the moving image, encaustic (wax)
techniques for printing, transferring, collaging and combining traditional
prints with wax. In addition to an evaluation of the advantages and
disadvantages of these individual approaches, the author also offers an insight
into the experiences and concerns of contemporary artists displaying
experimental printmaking objects and installations for exhibition. Work of over
30 British and International artists are illustrated giving the reader
practical examples and inspiration to explore for themselves the experimental
aspects of printmaking.
Practical Mixed-Media
Printmaking is an essential introduction to printmaking using a wide range of
low-cost materials. This practical guide includes easy-to-follow instructions,
hints and tips on all of the main printmaking techniques, as well as over 90
examples of works by contemporary printmakers and 19 profiles explaining the
artists' methods and inspiration. Mixed-media printmaking allows vast freedom
for experimentation and armed with the knowledge inside this book it is
possible to adapt and refine the basic techniques to suit your own projects.
This beautiful book will be an inspiration for printmakers at all levels.
Over the past two decades,
the art world has broadened its geographic reach and opened itself to new
continents, allowing for a significant crosspollination of post-conceptual
strategies and vernacular modes. Printed materials, both in innovative and
traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and
sources. This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, examines the evolution of artistic practices
related to prints, from the resurgence of ancient printmaking techniques often
used alongside digital technologies to the worldwide proliferation of
self-published artists books and ephemera. "Print/Out" features
focused sections on ten artists and publishers, including Ai Weiwei, Ellen
Gallagher, Martin Kippenberger, Lucy McKenzie, Museum in Progress, Superflex
and Rirkrit Tiravanija, as well as rich illustrations of additional printed
projects from the last twenty years by major artists such as Trisha Donnelly,
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Schutte, and Kelley Walker. An introductory essay
by Christophe Cherix, Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at MoMA,
offers an overview of this period with particular attention to new directions
and strategies within an expanded field of printmaking.
The print collections of
the National Galleries of Scotland reveal a diverse and dazzling variety of
different techniques and approaches to printmaking. From exquisite copperplate
engravings by the old masters to woodblocks cut on kitchen tables, this book
examines key works by artists from Durer to Warhol and beyond, giving readers
an introduction to printmaking as an art form and an understanding of the
different working methods and materials. Through technical summaries and
featured examples, The Printmaker's Art draws on the print and archive
collections to illustrate and explain the mysteries of printmaking.
In this brilliant essay, Jacques Derrida
explores issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation
to drawing, while offering detailed readings of an extraordinary collection of
images. Selected by Derrida from the prints and drawings department of the
Louvre, the works depict blindness--fictional, historical, and biblical. From
Old and New Testament scenes to the myth of Perseus and the Gorgon and the
blinding of Polyphemus, Derrida uncovers in these images rich, provocative
layers of interpretation. For Derrida drawing is itself blind; as an act rooted
in memory and anticipation, drawing necessarily replaces one kind of seeing
(direct) with another (mediated). Ultimately, he explains, the very lines which
compose any drawing are themselves never fully visible to the viewer since they
exist only in a tenuous state of multiple identities: as marks on a page, as
indicators of a contour. Lacking a "pure" identity, the lines of a
drawing summon the supplement of the word, of verbal discourse, and, in doing
so, obscure the visual experience. Consequently, Derrida demonstrates, the very
act of depicting a blind person undertakes multiple enactments and statements
of blindness and sight. "Memoirs of the Blind" is both a
sophisticated philosophical argument and a series of detailed readings. Derrida
provides compelling insights into famous and lesser known works, interweaving
analyses of texts--including Diderot's "Lettres sur les aveugles,"
the notion of mnemonic art in Baudelaire's "The Painter of Modern
Life," and Merleau-Ponty's "The Visible and the Invisible."
Along with engaging meditations on the history and philosophy of art, Derrida
reveals the waysviewers approach philosophical ideas through art, and the ways
art enriches philosophical reflection. An exploration of sight, representation,
and art, "Memoirs of the Blind" extends and deepens the meditation on
vision and painting presented in "Truth and Painting." Readers of
Derrida, both new and familiar, will profit from this powerful contribution to
the study of the visual arts.
OTHER LIBRARY NEWS
The Library has been very busy
over the summer installing a New Library Management System. This has allowed
the Library to re-look at some of its policies in the hope to improve its
services to users.
NEW LOAN ENTITLEMENTS:
All students are now entitled to
borrow up to 10 items at any one time. In addition Headphones, Laptops and
Visual Rulers are available to borrow (For use in the Library only).
HELP TO AVOID OVERDUE FINES:
2 days prior to the item being
due back to the library you will receive an email. This is to remind you about
your items on loan and that you need to return the items or renew them. If you
would like to keep using them, please click on the blue web-link in the e-mail.
This will take you straight to your Library account where you can click on a
renew button to extend the date on your library loans. You can do this up to
five times before you have to physically bring to item into the Library to
renew.
From your Library Account page you can also search the Library catalogue. Hopefully the new e-mail alert system will help you avoid overdue Library Fines
If you need help logging into
your Library account, searching the Library Catalogue or reserving books please
ask at the Library counter; and we will be happy to help. Equally if you need
help in accessing the Library’s databases please just ask.
NEW LIBRARY STUDY AREAS:
The Library’s space has been
slightly re-organised, in addition to the main Library there are now two quiet
study rooms; one is for complete silent study and the other is for quiet study,
where quiet conversation will be allowed.
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