This comprehensive reference work provides all the answers to all the technical questions that constantly arise when trying to identify accurately any kind of print. Some 90 different techniques are described, as well as essential features of printing history and related matters such as colour separation.

Reproduces 139 Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century. This work includes an introductory essay that familiarizes the reader with the history of this art form. The ten-page appendix includes a glossary of technical terms and biographies of 43 artists.

Hokusai was one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print. This book reproduces the artist's finest works in plates that convey the full variety of his invention, each of which is provided with an informative commentary.

An exploration of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), one of the greatest masters of the wood-block print. It features plates and commentary, and essays which examine his life and work, and place his art in its social and political context.

MC Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an achitect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature. The resulting dimensional and perspectival illusions bring us into confromtation with the limitations of our sensory perception.

Presents an overview of American printmaking in the first half of the twentieth century, beginning in 1905 with John Sloans etchings of everyday urban experience, dubbed the Ashcan School, and concluding with Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionist prints. It also includes biographies of many artists.

Chris Pinney demonstrates how printed images were pivotal to India's struggle for national and religious independence. He also provides a history of printing in India.

A study of the prints of Robert Motherwell, covering the years 1943 to 1991. In addition to cataloguing more than 500 prints in virtually every medium, it includes an essay on Motherwell's print-making, an illustrated chronology, concordance, bibliography and exhibition history.

A celebration of the V&A's remarkable collection of fan prints (uchiwa-e) by the admired early 19th-century ukiyo-e woodblock print artist Utagawa Hiroshige. The collection is published in its entirety: 126 fan prints, which are remarkablefor their vibrant colours and striking design.

Occupying a key position in the history of western art, this book allows the author to communicate with his readers as he intended. It helps the readers to experience the mystery and beauty of his poems as he first created them, discovering for themselves the intricate web of symbol and meaning that connects word and image.

Offers an introduction to art and its appreciation, with over 350 colour illustrations of works by important artists from all over the world. This book reveals the development of art over the centuries. It is supplemented with sections on Art Movements and Painting Techniques, and is suitable for art enthusiasts of any level of knowledge.

Focusing on the extensive work by printers, publishers, and booksellers in Venice beginning around the end of the 15th century, Wilson (art history and communication studies, McGill U.) explores how an expanding image of the world came to be projected in prints, and how these new visual experiences transformed the ways in which identities accrued

Features nearly fifty examples of mural-size prints and explores these multi-block woodcut and multi-plate engraving ensembles as contributions to the visual culture of their time. This book documents the relationship of monumental prints to the history of prints in general and also to mapmaking, painting, and book illustration.

Wordless books were stories from the early part of the twentieth century told in black and white woodcuts, written without any text. They are the precursor to graphic novels. This title presents a collection of black and white woodcut art that documents the influential precursors to the modern graphics.

Examines the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II. This catalogue features imagery that ranges from artistic impressions of the first fully mechanized war, to radical geometric abstractions, to the colourful jazz age images of speed, sport and diversion.

French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute is often viewed as one of the last and the best of the painters and engravers. This work presents various details of Redoute's masterful representation of nature's gifts.

Farm Sanctuary is the nation's leading farm animal protection organization. Since incorporating in 1986, it has worked to expose and stop cruel practices of the 'food animal' industry through research and investigations, and legal and institutional reforms. This 16-month calendar features photographs of the animals that live at the sanctuary.

William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an artist whose popularity never waned since his own day. His reputation has been based almost entirely on his numerous prints and engraved works. This book reproduces a selection from these and other representative prints, along with a brief overview of the artist and his times.

LEVEL: Key Stage 2. Provides the most comprehensive taxonomy of skills, topics, and media available. In addition to exploring drawing, painting, sculpture, and architecture at each grade level, 'Adventures in Art' also supports the study of printmaking, crafts, graphic design, fibre arts, and photography. 'Adventures in Art' provides an age-appropriate art curriculum. Throughout this program, ...