Printmaking, a beginning handbook / William C. Maxwell

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, c1977Description: xxiii, 405 pages, 4 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 137106998
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NE 850 .M39 1977
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. Producing: an intaglio print: 1. Etching -- 2. Drypoint -- 3. Metal engraving -- 4. Corrections on metal plates -- 5. One color intaglio printing -- 6. Advanced explorations intaglio -- II. Producing a relief paint: 7. Woodcut -- 8. Linocut -- 9. Wood engraving -- 10. One color relief painting 11. Advanced explorations in relief printmaking -- III. Producing a planographic print -- 12. Stone lithography -- 13. Metal plate lithography -- 14. Transfer lithography -- 15. Advanced explorations in planographic printmaking -- IV. Producing an experimental print : 16. Collagraph -- 17. Combining processes and other possibilities -- V. The exhibited print : 18. Preparing the print for display -- 19. Developing a printmaking aesthetic --Appendix A: List of suppliers -- Appendix B: Glossary -- Bibliography.
Summary: Through a fundamental approach to writing, this handbook presents a thorough illustrative expose. Unlike most contemporary printmaking texts, exposure to process and image is accomplished through the utilization of students and and student work, most of whom are no more than two or three semesters into the learning of various printmaking processes.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Architecture GC NE 850 .M39 1977 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000017463

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. Producing: an intaglio print: 1. Etching -- 2. Drypoint -- 3. Metal engraving -- 4. Corrections on metal plates -- 5. One color intaglio printing -- 6. Advanced explorations intaglio -- II. Producing a relief paint: 7. Woodcut -- 8. Linocut -- 9. Wood engraving -- 10. One color relief painting 11. Advanced explorations in relief printmaking -- III. Producing a planographic print -- 12. Stone lithography -- 13. Metal plate lithography -- 14. Transfer lithography -- 15. Advanced explorations in planographic printmaking -- IV. Producing an experimental print : 16. Collagraph -- 17. Combining processes and other possibilities -- V. The exhibited print : 18. Preparing the print for display -- 19. Developing a printmaking aesthetic --Appendix A: List of suppliers -- Appendix B: Glossary -- Bibliography.

Through a fundamental approach to writing, this handbook presents a thorough illustrative expose. Unlike most contemporary printmaking texts, exposure to process and image is accomplished through the utilization of students and and student work, most of whom are no more than two or three semesters into the learning of various printmaking processes.

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