Contemporary prints / Riva Castleman

Identifier:REF.PM.1862

Dimensions:172 p. : ill. (part col.) ; 32 cm.

Copyright dates:1973

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Prints, Art, Modern, Printmaking, creating with the arts

Description:"Original prints are today more than ever regarded as examples of a major art form. Because they are less expensive than painting, lithographs and other kinds of prints are increasingly sought by collectors, and a huge new market of multiple graphics has sprung in recent years, altering the concept of the art object throughout the world...Not only can prints reach a far wider audience than painting, but there is also an immense variety of techniques from which the artist can choose, from the simpler traditional methods of relief (woodcuts) and intaglio (etching and engraving) to the more complicated and innovative methods of the planographic process...The author gives detailed descriptions of each print and the method by which it was made, together with an analysis of the stylistic and historical aspects of the work within the artists own auvre and in the context of modern art movements." --from dust-jacket. Includes index and bibliographic references.