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Goya
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... more...
Complete Printmaker
Free Press 2009; US$ 41.95A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Picturing Victorian America
Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 23.99A landmark reference on 19th-century American lithographic production more...
James McNeill Whistler
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 7.00Artiste imprévisible et excentrique, le peintre américain Whistler est un véritable personnage de roman, admiré et très discuté. Moderniste avant l?heure, son oeuvre se déroule en quatre périodes. Dans une première période de recherche, l?artiste est influencé par le réalisme de Courbet et par le japonisme. Puis Whistler trouve son originalité avec... more...
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 49.95Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e , are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the beginning of the Japanese woodblock print in the 1680s until the year 1900, Japanese Woodblock Prints provides a detailed survey of all the major... more...
The Making of a Japanese Print
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99Woodblock printing is at the same time a very simple and a very complicated art. It is simple by modern standards because no machinery, not even a press, is used. The finished print in this book and the pages which so graphically present its development in color are produced by photo-offset from original woodblocks. more...
extra
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 119.00«extra» stellt die wichtigsten Veredelungstechniken vor: Anhand von 30 von renommierten Designern entworfenen Seiten werden die gestalterischen und technischen Besonderheiten jeder Veredelungstechnik anschaulich erklärt und ihre Einsatzmöglichkeiten aufgezeigt. Damit ist «extra» ein unverzichtbares Nachschlagewerk zum Thema Druckveredelung. more...
extra - Enzyklopädie der experimentellen Druckveredelung
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 119.00Grafikdesigner, die mit Druckveredelungen wie Blindprägung oder Strukturfolien arbeiten möchten, stehen immer wieder vor dem gleichen Problem: Es gibt keine aussagekräftigen Beispiele für die zur Verfügung stehenden Techniken. Entweder sind die Veredelungen in existierenden Büchern nur fotografisch dargestellt und nicht haptisch erfahrbar, oder es... more...
Collecting Modern Japanese Prints
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 49.95This book contains several bodies of information. An introductory essay puts Japanese prints into historical perspective and gives a brief outline of techniques. The second section, "Then," illustrated with prints by the older masters of the twentieth century, seeks to describe how we went about putting together our collection. There should not be... more...
Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 19.95Western art-lovers and students of the Orient have long championed the glories of traditional Japanese art. Almost unknown to the West, however, a relatively new and most active school of Japanese artists has for three generations been turning out some of the most exciting work to appear on the world's artistic horizon in many years?the modern Japanese... more...









