Perennially popular, printmaking is enjoying a contemporary resurgencebut no comprehensive up-to-date manual on the subject exists. At over 400 pages and packed with 1,000 full-color photos and illustrations, The Printmaking Bible is the definitive resource to the ins-and-outs of every variety of serious printmaking technique practiced today.In-depth instructions are accompanied by profiles that show how working artists create their prints. Historical information, troubleshooting tips, and an extensive resource section provide more invaluable tools. Perfect for students, artists, print aficionados, and collectors, this is truly the ultimate volume for anyone involved in this creative and influential art form.
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Ann d'Arcy Hughes is the founder and co-director of Brighton Independent Printmaking.
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
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Offers inspiration as well as explanation,
This review is from: The Printmaking Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques (Hardcover)
One thing that should be noted about this book is that all illustrations are in color and the photographs explaining various process are well done and easy to see. However, this is not just a technical primer (although it excels in that respect)- many artist/printmakers are interviewed as well as given step-by-step treatments as to their process. Both _Complete Printmaker_ and _Printmaking: History and Process_ are great books, but are showing their age with outdated digital references and art that is very '70's. This book is a welcome contemporary addition.
It should also be noted that the authors are British, so some of the terminology will be different from the American vernacular (such as methylated spirits instead of denatured alcohol). Most (but not all) measurements are given in standard and metric.
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This review is from: The Printmaking Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques (Hardcover)
Really nice step by step sections, but with a fine art feel instead of an 'arts and crafts' feel. Practical with nice highlights of artists and a broad range of artists and mark-making styles. Of recently published printmaking books - one of the best.
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Only for beginners,
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This review is from: The Printmaking Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques (Hardcover)
This book has some nice things going for it if you are a beginner printmaker. It explains a wide variety of printmaking techniques, features some examples of each type, and interviews with various printmakers.
On the other hand, despite what it says in the publisher's descriptive blurb, this book is in no way "perfect for artists " and in no way is it a "complete guide to materials and techniques". The steps given for various ways of making prints are very cursory. You would have to go beyond this book and find other sources to truly understand what each technique requires. The examples given are pretty but uninspiring, and the printmaker interviews, while being wonderful artists in their own right, are more like artists' statements about art and beauty, than discussions about particular methodology. It would have been more honest for the publishers to describe the book as an introductory guide to materials and techniques for on that level the book is perfectly acceptable and would have given the buyer the ability to make an informed choice. However to call it a bible is totally misleading and irresponsible, purporting by the use of that word that this book presents a definitive presentation of techniques. It most definitely does not. For the serious printmaker, look elsewhere for enlightenment.
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intaglio step, relief printing press, coarse aquatint, gum etch, copperplate oil, zinc plate lithography, fine aquatint, collé paper, relief ink, etching press, chine collé, intaglio image, etching ink, screenprinting process, monotype methods, photographic stencils, squeegee side, aquatint ground, offset lithography press, relief press, sugar lift, mezzotint technique, plate tone, mark resist, vacuum bed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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intaglio step, relief printing press, coarse aquatint, gum etch, copperplate oil, zinc plate lithography, fine aquatint, collé paper, relief ink, etching press, chine collé, intaglio image, etching ink, screenprinting process, monotype methods, photographic stencils, squeegee side, aquatint ground, offset lithography press, relief press, sugar lift, mezzotint technique, plate tone, mark resist, vacuum bed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brighton Independent Printmaking, University of Brighton, Troubleshooting Problem, Cause Solution, South African, Fabriano Artistico, Jon Crane, Somerset Satin, Harvey Daniels, Columbian Eagle, Randy Hemminghaus, Julian Hayward, Pratt Contemporary Art, David Krut Print Workshop, Jane Sampson, New York, Gary Goodman, Hebe Vernon-Morris, World War, William Kentridge, Noreen Grant, Soft Japanese, Colbert Mashile, Tim Foulds, Andrew Mockett Browse Sample Pages:
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