Modern Printmaking: A Guide to Traditional and Digital Techniques

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Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, Jan 26, 2016 - Art - 320 pages
A fully illustrated instructional printmaking book presenting step-by-step examples alongside representative works from thirty top contemporary printmaking artists. 

Printmaking is flourishing in the modern era, appealing to both traditional artists as well as those interested in graphic design and digital techniques. This all-in-one guide is both technical and inspirational, examining the history and contemporary processes of relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, mixed media, digital transfers, and post-digital graphics. Featuring step-by-step examples alongside representative works and profiles of top printmaking artists, this colorful resource
provides a truly fresh look at printmaking today, in all its forms.
 

Contents

RELIEF PRINTMAKING
8
Woodblock Printing
28
Linoleum Block Printing
48
Intaglio Printmaking Background
64
NonAcid Intaglio Techniques
80
Acid Intaglio Techniques
96
Collography
136
PhotoEtching and Photogravure
142
AND SERIGRAPHY
166
Serigraphy
224
ChineCollé
238
Mixed Media
250
Digital Transfers
276
PostDigital Graphics
284
Resources
296
Copyright

Printing Intaglio
158

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About the author (2016)

SYLVIE COVEY was born in France and studied graphic arts at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. She has taught digital and photo techniques in printmaking at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York since 2001 and has been an instructor at the Art Students League of New York since 1995. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, and North and South America and has been acquired by major museums and institutions. She lives in New York City.

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