New Ways of Gravure: Innovative Techniques of Printmaking Taken from the Studio of a Master Craftsman, Revised Edition / Stanley William Hayter

Identifier:REF.PM.1436

Dimensions:302 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Copyright dates:1981

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Printmaking, creating with the arts, Intaglio printing

Description:Revised edition of "New Ways of Gravure", originally published in 1949. The title became a standard work on the techniques of gravure. The revised edition has been expanded to include the most up-to-date information on the techniques of gravure. Includes sources of supply, selected bibliography, and index, as well as an essay on the future of gravure. "The book includes planning an actual print workshop, the materials and equipment needed, old and new methods of printing and etching, plaster and carving for prints, description of executing from drawings to final print, color printing, theories of line, descriptive drawing (equivalents of color and value as in painting), and - most importantly - the color viscosity methods used by the author at Atelier 17" -- back matter