Main entry:

Griffiths, Antony.

Title & Author:

Prints and printmaking : an introduction to the history and techniques / Antony Griffiths.

Edition:

[2nd ed.].

Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1996.

Description:

160 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Published by arrangement with British Museum Press."--Title page verso.
"Second edition."--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is a Print? -- Relief Printing Processes. Woodcut. Linocut. Wood-engraving. Metalcut and Relief Etching -- Intaglio Printing Processes. Engraving. Etching. Drypoint. Crayon-manner and Stipple: the dot processes. Mezzotint. Aquatint. Soft-ground Etching -- Lithography -- Screenprinting -- Colour Printing. Colour Woodcut. Colour Intaglio Printing. Colour Lithography -- Photomechanical Reproduction Processes. Processes of Relief Printing. Processes of Intaglio Printing. Processes of Surface Printing. Processes of Colour Printing. Catalogues of Prints; Books about Printmaking and the History of Prints.

Summary:

Antony Griffiths here provides an excellent introduction to a large and complicated subject for those who wish to acquire a basic understanding of print and printmaking. He explains as simply and briefly as possible the different techniques of printmaking and illustrates both details and whole prints to show the effects that can be achieved.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520207149 (pbk.)
9780520207141

Subject:

Prints Technique.
Prints History.
Estampe Technique.
Estampe Histoire.
printmaking.
Prints.
Technik
Druckgrafik
Grafische kunst.
Techniek.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 134106
Call No.: ID NE400.G74 REF; ID:97-B394
Status: Available