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Installations and Experimental Printmakingby Alexia Tala
A&C Black 2009; US$ 20.80This book will reveal the secrets of the new experimental forms of printmaking that are pushing the traditional boundaries, including mixing conventional techniques with photo-emulsion, glass and paper, using Perspex and paint stripper, printing with sand, and digital prints mounted on relief surfaces. The book will also look at issues surrounding using the moving image, and encaustic wax techniques for printing, transferring, collaging and combining traditional prints with wax. There will be further information about displaying objects and installations, as well as a section covering the various advantages and disadvantages of a range of non-paper surface materials that can be used for printmaking. The book will follow the usual handbook layout,... more...
Engraving the Savageby Michael Gaudio
University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 75.00In this innovative analysis, Michael Gaudio explains how popular engravings of Native American Indians defined the nature of Western civilization by producing an image of its savage other. Going beyond the notion of the savage as an intellectual and ideological construct, Gaudio examines how the tools, materials, and techniques of copperplate engraving shaped Western responses to indigenous peoples. more...
William Blake and the Art of Engravingby Mei-Ying Sung
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2009; US$ 99.00Sung closely examines William Blake?s extant engraved copper plates and arrives at a new interpretation of his working process. Thirty-nine engraved copper plates survive, including twenty-two for illustrations for the Book of Job. Sung argues that hammer marks to the reverse of the plates that suggest that Blake revised and corrected his work more than was previously thought. more...
The City Rehearsedby Christopher Heuer
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 100.00The City Rehearsed offers a new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It focuses on the active role his prints played in the life of urban readers outside of a narrowly-defined "Flemish" architectural history. This is a study with clear interest for historians of art and the built environment. more...
Paper Politicsby Josh Macphee
PM Press 2009; US$ 20.00With a widely eclectic variety of protest art in mediums such as relief, lithography, collagraph, and photography, this major collection of contemporary politically engaged printmaking showcases art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in conversation. Based on an art exhibition that has traveled to more than a dozen cities in North America and including many do-it-yourself samples, this eye opening book contains works from more than 200 international artists. From the well establishedSue Coe, Swoon, Carlos Cortezto street artists, rock poster makers, and up-and-comers such as Favianna Rodriguez and Chris Stain, this diverse collection is the work of artists who felt the... more...
Spoken Imageby Clive Scott
Reaktion Books 1999; US$ 40.00The Spoken Image considers the nature of photography, examining the language used in titles, captions and commentaries, particularly as they relate to documentary photography, photojournalism and fashion photography. more...
Goyaby Victor I. Stoichita
Reaktion Books 2000; US$ 33.95This intriguing book on Goya concentrates on the closing years of the eighteenth century as a neglected milestone in his life. Goya waited until 1799 to publish his celebrated series of drawings, the Caprichos, which offered a personal vision of the "world turned upside down". Victor I. Stoichita and Anna Maria Coderch consider how themes of Revolution and Carnival (both seen as inversions of the established order) were obsessions in Spanish culture in this period, and make provocative connections between the close of the 1700s and the end of the Millennium. Particular emphasis is placed on the artist's links to the underground tradition of the grotesque, the ugly and the violent. Goya's drawings, considered as a personal and secret laboratory,... more...
Gwen Raveratby Frances Spalding
Random House 2010; US$ 27.53'The best of these Darwins is that they are cut out of rock - three taps is enough to convince one how immense is their solidarity.' So wrote Virginia Woolf affectionately of Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin. In this first full biography, Frances Spalding creates a fascinating, moving portrait of Gwen's character, her life and her art. It begins in late-Victorian Cambridge, which Gwen herself amusingly described in her childhood memoir Period Piece. But Frances Spalding looks behind and beyond the pages of this much-loved book. She explores Gwen's Darwin inheritance, her conflicts when she moves beyond her home environment to enter the Slade School of Art, her encounter with post-Impressionism, and her friendships with... more...
Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germanyby Stephanie Leitch
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 85.00As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, this work highlights a unique and early incident of visual accuracy and an unprecedented investment in the practice of ethnography. more...









