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Japanese Woodblock Prints
From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe―but often remains misunderstood as an “exotic” artifact that helped inspire Western creativity.
The fact is that the Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon of which there exists no Western equivalent. Some of the most disruptive ideas in modern art―including, as Karl Marx put it, that “all that is solid melts into air”―were invented in Japan in the 1700s and expressed like never before in the designs of such masters as Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige in the early 19th century.
This book lifts the veil on a much-loved but little-understood art form by presenting the 200 most exceptional Japanese woodblock prints in their historical context. Ranging from the 17th-century development of decadent ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” to the decline and later resurgence of prints in the early 20th century, the images collected in this edition make up an unmatched record not only of a unique genre in art history, but also of the shifting mores and cultural development of Japan.
From mystical mountains to snowy passes, samurai swordsmen to sex workers in shop windows, each piece is explored as a work of art in its own right, revealing the stories and people behind the motifs. We discover the four pillars of the woodblock print―beauties, actors, landscapes, and bird-and-flower compositions―alongside depictions of sumo wrestlers, kabuki actors, or enticing courtesans―rock stars who populated the “floating world” and whose fan bases fueled the frenzied production of woodblock prints. We delve into the horrifying and the obscure in prints where demons, ghosts, man-eaters, and otherworldly creatures torment the living―stunning images that continue to influence Japanese manga, film, and video games to this day. We witness how, in their incredible breadth, from everyday scenes to erotica, the martial to the mythological, these works are united by the technical mastery and infallible eye of their creators and how, with tremendous ingenuity and tongue-in-cheek wit, publishers and artists alike fought to circumvent government censorship.
Three years in the making, this XXL edition presents reproductions of the finest extant impressions from the vaults of museums and private collections across the globe―many newly photographed especially for this project. Some 17 stunning fold-outs invite us to study even the subtlest details, while extensive descriptions guide us through this frantic period in Japanese art history.
Features:
The work of 89 artists, from the world-renowned to the unfamiliar
7 chapters organized chronologically to trace the history of the medium from 1680 to 1938
17 fold-outs, hand-folded due to their size and specifications
Exclusive reproductions from museums and private collections
An appendix listing all artists and works
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£137.20£142.50Japanese Woodblock Prints
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Japanese Woodblock Prints
From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe―but often remains misunderstood as an “exotic” artifact that helped inspire Western creativity.
The fact is that the Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon of which there exists no Western equivalent. Some of the most disruptive ideas in modern art―including, as Karl Marx put it, that “all that is solid melts into air”―were invented in Japan in the 1700s and expressed like never before in the designs of such masters as Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige in the early 19th century.
This book lifts the veil on a much-loved but little-understood art form by presenting the 200 most exceptional Japanese woodblock prints in their historical context. Ranging from the 17th-century development of decadent ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” to the decline and later resurgence of prints in the early 20th century, the images collected in this edition make up an unmatched record not only of a unique genre in art history, but also of the shifting mores and cultural development of Japan.
From mystical mountains to snowy passes, samurai swordsmen to sex workers in shop windows, each piece is explored as a work of art in its own right, revealing the stories and people behind the motifs. We discover the four pillars of the woodblock print―beauties, actors, landscapes, and bird-and-flower compositions―alongside depictions of sumo wrestlers, kabuki actors, or enticing courtesans―rock stars who populated the “floating world” and whose fan bases fueled the frenzied production of woodblock prints. We delve into the horrifying and the obscure in prints where demons, ghosts, man-eaters, and otherworldly creatures torment the living―stunning images that continue to influence Japanese manga, film, and video games to this day. We witness how, in their incredible breadth, from everyday scenes to erotica, the martial to the mythological, these works are united by the technical mastery and infallible eye of their creators and how, with tremendous ingenuity and tongue-in-cheek wit, publishers and artists alike fought to circumvent government censorship.
Three years in the making, this XXL edition presents reproductions of the finest extant impressions from the vaults of museums and private collections across the globe―many newly photographed especially for this project. Some 17 stunning fold-outs invite us to study even the subtlest details, while extensive descriptions guide us through this frantic period in Japanese art history.
Features:
The work of 89 artists, from the world-renowned to the unfamiliar
7 chapters organized chronologically to trace the history of the medium from 1680 to 1938
17 fold-outs, hand-folded due to their size and specifications
Exclusive reproductions from museums and private collections
An appendix listing all artists and works
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£137.20£142.50Japanese Woodblock Prints
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Japanese Woodblock Prints. 40th Ed.
From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe―but often remains misunderstood as an “exotic” artifact that helped inspire Western creativity.
The fact is that the Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon of which there exists no Western equivalent. Some of the most disruptive ideas in modern art―including, as Karl Marx put it, that “all that is solid melts into air”―were invented in Japan in the 1700s and expressed like never before in the designs of such masters as Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige in the early 19th century.
This volume, derived from the original XXL monograph, lifts the veil on a much-loved but little-understood art form by presenting the most exceptional Japanese woodblock prints in their historical context. Ranging from the 17th-century development of decadent ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” to the decline and later resurgence of prints in the early 20th century, the images collected in this edition make up an unmatched record not only of a unique genre in art history, but also of the shifting mores and cultural development of Japan.
From mystical mountains to snowy passes, samurai swordsmen to sex workers in shop windows, each piece is explored as a work of art in its own right, revealing the stories and people behind the motifs. We discover the four pillars of the woodblock print―beauties, actors, landscapes, and bird-and-flower compositions―alongside depictions of sumo wrestlers, kabuki actors, or enticing courtesans―rock stars who populated the “floating world” and whose fan bases fueled the frenzied production of woodblock prints. We delve into the horrifying and the obscure in prints where demons, ghosts, man-eaters, and otherworldly creatures torment the living―stunning images that continue to influence Japanese manga, film, and video games to this day. We witness how, in their incredible breadth, from everyday scenes to erotica, the martial to the mythological, these works are united by the technical mastery and infallible eye of their creators and how, with tremendous ingenuity and tongue-in-cheek wit, publishers and artists alike fought to circumvent government censorship.
As part of our 40th anniversary series, this edition compiles the finest extant impressions from museums and private collections across the globe in a lightweight, accessible format, offering extensive descriptions to guide us through this frantic period in Japanese art history.
About the series
TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program―now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
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£19.80£23.80Japanese Woodblock Prints. 40th Ed.
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Japanese Woodblocks Mini Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
This calendar is filled with a visually dazzling array of woodblock prints from masterful Japanese artists Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige. The artworks feature dramatic rocky cliffs, natural beauty and mountainous landscapes, all created in a mesmerizing style and displayed with vibrant colours. In this mini calendar, informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.Read more
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Japanese Woodblocks Set of 3 Mini Notebooks (Mini Notebook Collections)
The Japanese Woodblocks Set of 3 Mini Notebooks features a collection of three mini, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design: The Great Wave, Plum Garden and Sea at Satta. With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they are perfect to be carried everywhere!
Woodblock printing is a traditional artistic medium in Japan most renowned for its use in ukiyo-e or ‘floating world’ prints. Both moving and mesmerising, this medium captures scenes with considerable atmosphere and vibrancy whether it be crashing waves, autumn leaves or serene waterfalls. This Collection shows some of the best examples of this beautiful style of Japanese Art.
Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
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Japanese Woodblocks Slim Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
This calendar is filled with a visually dazzling array of woodblock prints from masterful Japanese artists Katsushika Hokusai, and Utagawa Hiroshige I and II. The artworks feature dramatic rocky cliffs, natural beauty and mountainous landscapes, all created in a mesmerizing style and displayed with vibrant colours. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.
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Joe Tilson
Joe Tilson RA (b.1928) is one of the great figures in post-war British art and a pivotal artist of the British Pop Art movement during the 1960s. Still working, and still evolving, he has continued to explore many new directions and a great variety of mediums since moving away from his Pop origins. Astonishingly, no general monograph documenting all these phases of Tilson’s prolific production has ever been published. This book remedies this through a series of insightful chapters, exploring each decade of the artist’s career, written by Marco Livingstone, a respected authority on British contemporary art. Featuring a lively and visually rich design, this unique work will guide the reader through the evolution of one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British art.Read more
£36.60£42.80Joe Tilson
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Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave 2024 Artisan Art Vegan Leather Diary – Page to View with Notes
Artisan Art Diaries from Flame Tree come in a range of hues to suit the moment, with well-known art on the embossed cover and beautifully decorated edges. The standard format has a week to view on one page and a lined page opposite for note-taking. And, with flexible, soft touch vegan leather covers, they’re easy to slip into your bag and a pleasure to use. This diary features Hokusai’s iconic The Great Wave, off Kanagawa, from his’Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’ series.
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Kerry James Marshall: The Complete Prints: The Complete Graphic Work
This catalog raisonné offers the first public account of these important works and the first in-depth study of the role of printed images and print processes in Marshall’s work as a whole.One of the most important American contemporary artists, Kerry James Marshall is known for artworks that address the ‘crisis of under-representation’ of the black figure in the pictorial traditions of the Western world, from museums to comic books. His work has been widely celebrated in major museum retrospectives such as Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff (Antwerp, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Madrid) in 2014 and Mastry (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles) in 2017, and through numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997.
Best known as a painter, Marshall has throughout his career also produced a vast graphic oeuvre that has been seldom seen and rarely documented. An assiduous worker, he spent his youth acquiring time-honored skills of art – drawing and painting, but also wood engraving and printing. By his midtwenties, he recalls, ‘I could paint in egg tempera.… I was good at printmaking. I could do woodcuts, etchings, aquatints. I knew all of those techniques.’
Most of his prints have been produced not in professional print workshops, but by the artist, working alone in his studio. They range from images the size of postcards to his 50-foot-long, 12 panel woodcut Untitled (1998–99), to iterations of his ongoing magnum opus, Rythm Mastr. And while some have entered prominent museum collections, many exist only in private collections or the artist’s archive and are unknown to the public.
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La Pérégrination vers l’Ouest: Intégrale des estampes de l’édition japonaise de 1806-1837
Publié en Chine au XVIe siècle, La Pérégrination vers l’Ouest est l’un des romans les plus importants de toute la culture asiatique. Il relate le périple fantastique, à travers l’Asie centrale, d’un moine bouddhiste et de son escorte légendaire : un ogre des sables, un cochon anthropomorphe, un cheval-dragon et, volant sur son nuage avec son bâton magique, l’irrévérencieux Singe-Roi Son Goku, qui donne tout son sel à ce récit sans cesse repris et adapté au fil des siècles, jusqu’au célèbre Dragon Ball de Toriyama Akira. Entre 1806 et 1837, des libraires d’Osaka, au Japon, commandent ainsi 250 gravures, dont une dizaine en couleurs, pour une ambitieuse édition illustrée de l’oeuvre : monstres formidables, voyageurs égarés, combats titanesques… tout le génie des artistes de l’époque d’Edo s’expriment dans ces estampes virtuoses qui, si elles furent longtemps attribuées à Hokusai, sont en fait l’oeuvre de son plus fidèle disciple, Katsushika Taito, et deux autres imagiers talentueux, Ohara Toya et Utagawa Toyohiro. Après un travail considérable de recherche et de restauration, ce livre présente, pour la première fois depuis leur édition originale, l’intégralité de ces images exceptionnelles. Préfacé et commenté sous la direction de Christophe Marquet (EFEO), cet ensemble remarquable permet de découvrir toute la puissance narrative de l’estampe japonaise, terreau visuel du manga moderne.Read more
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La Pérégrination vers l’Ouest: Intégrale des estampes de l’édition japonaise de 1806-1837
Publié en Chine au XVIe siècle, La Pérégrination vers l’Ouest est l’un des romans les plus importants de toute la culture asiatique. Il relate le périple fantastique, à travers l’Asie centrale, d’un moine bouddhiste et de son escorte légendaire : un ogre des sables, un cochon anthropomorphe, un cheval-dragon et, volant sur son nuage avec son bâton magique, l’irrévérencieux Singe-Roi Son Goku, qui donne tout son sel à ce récit sans cesse repris et adapté au fil des siècles, jusqu’au célèbre Dragon Ball de Toriyama Akira. Entre 1806 et 1837, des libraires d’Osaka, au Japon, commandent ainsi 250 gravures, dont une dizaine en couleurs, pour une ambitieuse édition illustrée de l’oeuvre : monstres formidables, voyageurs égarés, combats titanesques… tout le génie des artistes de l’époque d’Edo s’expriment dans ces estampes virtuoses qui, si elles furent longtemps attribuées à Hokusai, sont en fait l’oeuvre de son plus fidèle disciple, Katsushika Taito, et deux autres imagiers talentueux, Ohara Toya et Utagawa Toyohiro. Après un travail considérable de recherche et de restauration, ce livre présente, pour la première fois depuis leur édition originale, l’intégralité de ces images exceptionnelles. Préfacé et commenté sous la direction de Christophe Marquet (EFEO), cet ensemble remarquable permet de découvrir toute la puissance narrative de l’estampe japonaise, terreau visuel du manga moderne.Read more
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Linocut and Reduction Printmaking: Design and techniques
This beautiful book reveals the astonishing flexibility and creative possibilities of the linocut printmaking technique. Written by a leading and innovative linocut printmaker, it focuses on the reduction printing technique and gives detailed, practical help to choosing and using tools and materials, plus generous creative advice on designing specifically for linocut. With over 300 lavish illustrations, it is sure to inspire every aspiring and experienced printmaker to pick up their blade and start cutting. Divided into three parts, this book introduces the reader to the infinite possibilities of working with traditional artist’s lino. Explains the tools and materials you’ll need, as well as vital techniques such as sharpening your tools and installing a printing press. There is instruction on how to draft a design and transfer it to lino, ready for cutting and printing. Finally, there are step-by-step sequences to ten different prints, broken down into layers and showing the build-up of colours.Read more
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Linocut for Artists and Designers
Linocut is used to stunning effect by artists, illustrators and designers because of its strong graphic qualities, accessibility and versatility. Whether you are printing by hand on your kitchen table or on a press in a print studio, this book gets you started and goes on to explore the myriad creative applications of linocut. It encourages you to experiment with different approaches to image making and explores new ways of thinking about how linocut can be used. Detailed information on which tools to buy, where to find the best materials, and how to set up your working space are included. There are clear, step-by-step instructions to a series of projects that develop your techniques and ideas. Over 300 colour illustrations, and profiles of eight international linocut practitioners provide insight and inspiration. Nick Morley shares his experience and specialist knowledge to make this practical guide an essential companion for everyone interested in this addictive and absorbing medium.Read more
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Linocut: A Creative Guide to Making Beautiful Prints
A step-by-step guide on how to create personal and contemporary linocut prints.
A linocut is a relief print created by carving a design into a printing block. It is the uncut surface, not the carved away areas, that gives you your image when you roll it with ink, lay paper on top then apply pressure to produce a print.
With 18 easy-to-follow projects that can be adapted to suit your own ideas, experienced printmaker Sam Marshall guides you through the whole process – from the drawing to the carving to the inking to the printing – of creating your own beautiful prints and handmade cards whether you are working from your kitchen table or a more advanced studio set-up.
By taking inspiration from everyday life, Sam helps you to build your confidence with observational drawing. Featuring step-by-step projects, the book demonstrates a range of skills with low-cost materials to produce simple linocuts, reduction linocuts and colourful multi-block prints. You will also learn more experimental techniques such as combining monoprint, chine collé, jigsaw linocuts and rainbow rolls and pick up handy tips on subjects such as ‘noise’ and editioning your prints.
Beautifully illustrated with photographs of Sam’s own drawings and linocuts, and featuring the work of 5 talented printmakers, Linocut is an essential guide to linocut printmaking. Packed with creative and practical advice to guide and encourage you, whether you’re just starting out, returning to the craft or looking to expand your printmaking skills.
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Linocut: Learn in a Weekend
By your own hand, prints to be proud of in no time at all.Nick Morley is a seasoned expert at guiding aspiring printmakers through their first projects, and this accessible book distils his knowledge into friendly step-by-step projects, each chosen to demonstrate a particular skill, and illustrated with clear photography.
With templates accompanying each project making it easy to get started, the reader will quickly find themselves growing in confidence and skill.
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£10.10£12.30Linocut: Learn in a Weekend
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Lithography: An Artist Guide
Learn the versatile art of lithography and explore its expressive potential This practical book explains how to create and print your own lithographs. With clear step-by-step sequences, it explains the full process that depends fundamentally on water not mixing with grease. It includes new methods and ideas in an up-to-date practical guide that covers everything from studio set-up through to mixing inks for edition printing, and then explains alternative techniques such as Lo-shu washes, negative drawing, transfers and Manière Noire. This book is an invaluable reference as you explore the beautiful and expressive potential of one of the oldest printmaking techniques. The processes – stone lithography, ball-grained plates (aluminium and zincography) and photoplates Inks and paper – edition printing, multiple transfer techniques and alternative drawing materials Recipes – quick reference guide and reminder for mixing etches, processing chemicals, mixing tusche and making drawing materialsRead more
£17.30£18.00Lithography: An Artist Guide
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Lyonel Feininger/Alfred Kubin (German Edition): Eine Künstlerfreundschaft
“Of all of the contemporary draftsmen, I admire you the most,” wrote Alfred Kubin on November 25, 1912, in a letter to Lyonel Feininger. After the two had exchanged drawings with one another, they began an intense correspondence. Their letters are being published in this book for the first time, providing profound insight into the minds of Kubin and Feininger.Besides drawings by Feininger from Kubin’s estate, the volume presents an extraordinary selection of drawings and prints by the latter, whose body of work full of dismal symbolism has not lost any of its fascination. Beginning with early drawings by Kubin and commercial caricatures by Feininger, the exhibition traces the artistic paths of two men who corresponded as soul mates yet developed in very different directions: Kubin shifted his attention to the illustration of literary works, while Feininger discovered painting. Exhibition: Internationale Tage, Ingelheim, 24.5.–2.8.2015 | Albertina, Wien/Vienna, 4. 9.2015–10.1.2016Read more
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M.C. Escher. The Graphic Work
From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic illusions and the limitations of sensory perception. For mathematicians and scientists, Escher is a mastermind. For hippies, he was the pioneer of psychedelic art.
Born in Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands in 1898, Escher’s early works focused on nature and landscapes, with regular exhibitions in Holland, and some international recognition. It was on a trip to the Alhambra Palace in Spain in the 1920s, however, that Escher found his niche. Sketching the patterns of the palace’s Moorish architecture, Escher became captivated by the codependency of forms within and next to each other.
Working mainly with lithographs and woodcuts, Escher went on to explore the relationships among shapes, figures, and space with a near-obsessive delight. He reveled in quirky vantage points, multiple perspectives, the transition from paper flatness to illusory volume, and intricate mathematical puzzles such as the Möbius strip, a seemingly infinite loop which twists and recoils on itself in a contortion of apparent physical impossibility.
This introductory book from TASCHEN Basic Art 2.0 taps into Escher’s brilliant mind with key works from his restless investigation of image and perception. Along the way, you’ll find fish morphing into birds, lizards crawling off the page, masterful reflections, infinite mazes, and some of the most mind-bending images of 20th-century art.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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Making Collagraph Prints
Collagraph printmaking is an accessible and environmentally friendly way of making striking prints with a unique texture. At its simplest it is a method of printing from collaged plates; at its most sophisticated, it is an innovative and exciting experimental medium. This book is a guide to the technique, with step-by-step instructions for creating and printing simple plates for the beginner, as well as tips, ideas and directions for those with more experience. There is advice on how to get started at the kitchen table; a guide to additional materials and equipment; step-by-step instructions for building collagraph plates and techniques for printing in monochrome using relief and intaglio methods.Read more
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Making Japanese Woodblock Prints
Japanese woodblock printing is a beautiful art that traces its roots back to the eighth century. It uses a unique system of registration, cutting and printing. This practical book explains the process from design drawing to finished print, and then introduces more advanced printing and carving techniques, plus advice on editioning your prints and their aftercare, tool care and sharpening. Supported by nearly 200 colour photographs, this new book advises on how to develop your ideas, turning them into sketches and a finished design drawing, then how to break an image into the various blocks needed to make a print. It also explains how to use a tracing paper transfer method to take your design from drawing to woodblock and, finally, explains the traditional systems of registration, cutting and printing that define an authentic Japanese woodblock.Read more
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Making Woodblock Prints
Woodblock printing is an ancient art form, which produces beautiful, subtle and lively pieces with just a few simple materials. This book introduces the art, and shares technical information and ideas for those with more experience. A wide range of exciting examples of printed woodcuts are shown along with advice on materials and tools, and a step-by-step guide to sharpening. Techniques to achieve quality prints and perfect registration are covered too. Drawing on the vibrant living traditions from China and Japan, it is both a technical guide and an inspiration.Read more
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Martin Truefitt-Baker Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
Martin Truefitt-Baker is a fine art printmaker and painter living in the Brecon Beacons national park, South Wales, UK. His linocuts use a reduction method, printing from a single piece of lino. This is progressively cut away and overprinted onto paper several times, in a succession of tones, to build up the final image. The prints are of the animals he has seen on his walks through the local landscape, mostly within just a couple of miles of his home. Martin always tries to catch some of the magic in the way the animal moves and lives within its environment. The beautiful Usk valley, rough mountainsides, twisted trees, wild flowers and busy insects fill the backgrounds of his prints. This wall calendar features graceful owls, foxes, badgers and more. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.Read more
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Mixed-Media Collagraph Prints: Creative Techniques
This practical and well-illustrated book gives a full account of how to make bold, dynamic collagraph prints. It explains a range of techniques from drypoint to collagraph, as well as viscosity printing and mixed media. Packed with finished examples, it also celebrates printmaking as an art form in itself, not just as a process for producing multiples, and encourages the artist to find their own distinct style. The book provides inspiration to achieve vibrant textures and exciting surface effects and there are practical tips to encourage you to experiment and play.Read more
£10.90£12.30Mixed-Media Collagraph Prints: Creative Techniques
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National Galleries Scotland: Scottish Colourists Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
This calendar showcases a beautiful selection of artworks from the extensive collection at the National Galleries of Scotland, one of the finest in the world. Featuring stunning pieces by Scottish Colourists Francis Cadell, John Duncan Fergusson, Leslie Hunter and Samuel Peploe, each work is accompanied by informative text. The datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.Read more
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Paper Lithography (Small Crafts)
A step-by-step guide to making paper lithography prints. This practical book explains how to use gum arabic to transfer a photocopied image without specialised equipment. It uses both hand-drawn and photographic images to show how paper lithography (or gum arabic transfer printing) is a quick and simple process that allows for creative experimentation on a range of surfaces. Packed with advice and ideas, it highlights this exciting, flexible and creative technique for artists and makers. Contains clear, detailed instructions to printing a lithographic transfer using a humble photocopy as a plate. Advice on how to incorporate the process as part of sketchbook, textile and etching practice, Ideas for more advanced multimedia applications and inspirational finished examples. Also includes tips for coping with common problems and warnings of pitfalls to be avoided.Read more
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Pictures of the Floating World: An Introduction to Japanese Prints
A beautifully packaged, affordable introduction to the perennially popular subject of Japanese printsIn Edo Japan, woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (“pictures of the Floating World”) captured the entertainment culture of the urban elite and eventually many other subjects as well. These beautiful prints were the result of a meticulous craft process, in which an artist’s initial drawing was translated by expert carvers into multiple printing blocks for different colours.
In this attractive volume, Sarah E. Thompson, curator of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provides a highly readable overview of the cultural and artistic history of ukiyo-e, showcasing 120 exceptional prints from the museum’s world-class collection, by masters including Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. She explores each of the principal genres in turn: beauty and fashion, the kabuki theatre, landscape, nature, history and literature, and fantasy.
Pictures of the Floating World features a traditional Japanese stab binding and is housed in a durable slipcase together with three remarkable prints, suitable for framing. It will be a must-have for all art lovers.
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Print Making Book, The: Projects and Techniques in the Art of Hand-Printing
The Print Making Book: Projects and Techniques in the Art of Hand-Printing – This book is your complete introduction to the art of hand printing.
With 23 projects to make, you will be guided through a plethora of techniques that include relief, screen, and mono-printing, all using tools and materials that are easy to source and use at home in your kitchen, bathroom, or garden.
A printing press is not required for any of the projects. Vanessa Mooncie’s beautiful original designs will enable you to make your own the following beautiful projects:
- Printed greetings cards
- Crockery
- Cushions
- Silk scarves
- Jewellery
- Bags
- Wallpaper
Plus, many more inspirational projects for fashion and home. With easy-to-use templates and beautiful step-by-step illustrations, you can create that special, individual gift with handmade charm.
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Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects
This is a crash-course on printing with techniques, materials and surfaces that can all be done in the home. Every project features Yellow Owl Workshop’s sought-after motifs and the author’s art-school style illustrations. This title is full of original ideas for things to make and use, such as jar labels, pillows and a stationary set. “Print Workshop” grabs readers hand and leads them through a crash-course on printing with techniques, materials and surfaces they never dreamed they could take on at home. It can be as simple as carving a potato or as complex as a chemical bath, but no matter the skill level, these printing techniques never require expensive equipment or lots of space. Everything in this book is easily do-able at home; and every project features Yellow Owl Workshop’s sought-after motifs and Christine’s art-school style illustrations. The book is full of original ideas for things to make and use. There’s jar labels for your canning and pickling needs. There’s pillows inspired by YOW’s famous city and bicycle stamps. There’s everything from a stationary set (complete with wax seal) to a dartboard, from a deck of cards to a fine art print.Read more
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Printmaking Revolution: New Advancements in Technology, Safety, and Sustainability
The most essential, indispensable resource for todays art school and university students, master printers and fine artists who work with printmaking media. This book provides the latest never-before-published advancements in the three major printmaking mediums of etching, lithography and screen-printing. With its focus on health safety practices, green sustainability goals and on the new benign bio-based, non-carcinogenic solvents, the groundbreaking information detailed in this book will make it possible for every college and university art department to embrace green, petroleum-free, non-toxic materials and practices that comply with EPA and OSHA requirements without sacrificing the quality of fine art prints.Read more
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Printmaking Second Edition: A Complete Guide to Materials & Processes
Printmaking is a practical and comprehensive guide to printmaking techniques.This fully updated edition includes expanded chapters on digital and mixed media processes, and a brand new ‘Print & Make’ chapter, which explores the opportunities for creative expression within the many processes available to print makers. The more traditional techniques of relief, intaglio, collograph, lithography, screen printing and monoprint have also been refreshed with the addition of new images showing a broader range of subject matter, including more contemporary prints and international artists.
Each technique is explored from the development of the printing or digital matrix, through the different stages of creation to image output. Guidance on how to set up a print studio, sections on troubleshooting techniques and the inclusion of up-to-date lists of suppliers, workshops and galleries make this an essential volume for beginner and experienced printmakers alike.
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Printmaking Second Edition: A Complete Guide to Materials & Processes
Printmaking is a practical and comprehensive guide to printmaking techniques.This fully updated edition includes expanded chapters on digital and mixed media processes, and a brand new ‘Print & Make’ chapter, which explores the opportunities for creative expression within the many processes available to print makers. The more traditional techniques of relief, intaglio, collograph, lithography, screen printing and monoprint have also been refreshed with the addition of new images showing a broader range of subject matter, including more contemporary prints and international artists.
Each technique is explored from the development of the printing or digital matrix, through the different stages of creation to image output. Guidance on how to set up a print studio, sections on troubleshooting techniques and the inclusion of up-to-date lists of suppliers, workshops and galleries make this an essential volume for beginner and experienced printmakers alike.
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Prints and Drawings (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
Eighty-three moving works from the four great print cycles ― The Weavers, The Peasant War, War, Death ― and more. “To see the beautiful examples of her work reproduced in this well-printed, reasonably priced volume is to sit at the feet of a great modern master.” ― School Arts.Read more
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Propaganda Prints: A History of Art in the Service of Social and Political Change
Propaganda Prints reviews the history, cultural diversity and artistic legacy of art produced in the service of social and political change from ancient times to the present day. The author presents the arts of state control, of opposition, of revolution, of advertising, politics and self-promotion in their historical contexts, with three hundred images to evoke some of the dreams and concerns which have driven humanity through the last five thousand years. The Ancient Mesopotamians are there with the Romans, the Crusaders, the Normans, the Victorians, the Suffragettes, the Nazis and the Hippies. The American, French, Russian, Mexican, Chinese and Cuban revolutions all contribute as do many, far too many, wars. From Gutenberg’s printing press to You Tube, from Alexander to Obama, this review of propaganda art reflects the best and the worst of us, and offers the pictures by way of consolation.Read more
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Pumpkin Carving Stencils for Advanced: 50 Funny & Spooky Halloween Templates for Carving Pumpkins, Decorating and Painting Crafts | Template Patterns for Funny and Scary…
Create the perfect atmosphere for a spooky Halloween with this book “Pumpkin Carving Stencils for Advanced”.
This pumpkin stencils book is all you need to do the coolest pumpkin carving for Halloween.With a large range of different stencils you’re sure to find the perfect stencil for your pumpkin inside. This book include instructions on how to use the stencils to carve your pumpkin. Learn how to carve funny and spooky pumpkin faces, scarecrows, spiders, bats, witches, zombies and so much more! Pumpkin carving with this book is sure to be easier.
Book features:
- 50 unique stencils with funny and spooky designs.
- Simple step-by-step instructions!
- Single-Sided paper to easily cut out your image.
- For All Ages
- Patterns fit different sized pumpkins
- Perfect for Indoor and Outdoor Halloween home decoration.
Designs Include:
funny & spooky faces, scarecrows, spiders, bats, witches, zombies, ghosts, cats, haunted houses, tombstones and more!Grab a copy today or a few for your friends too and have fun carving!
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Pumpkin carving stencils: Over 130 Halloween jack olantern pumpkin designs. Including Witches, Cats, skulls, bats, ghosts, and so much more! (Best Pumpkin Carving Stencils 2023)
Welcome to October! ???? You know what that means? Pumpkin carving season has arrived, and you’ll need the perfect pumpkin stencils! This book comes with easy-to-use templates of over 130 different Halloween designs. Enjoy a favorite pumpkin carving tradition in a creative way with this book full of wonderful stencil patterns. It’ll be enjoyed by all ages! The timeless activity will provide fun memories to last a lifetime when completed with loved ones this fall.
In addition to the carving stencils in this book you will also find that we’ve included more detailed stencil patterns designed for etching through the surface of the pumpkin.
this can be achieved by tracing around the stencil pattern with a push pin or another object with a sharp point. Once you’ve traced the pattern with the push pin marks remove the stencil and etch out the design with your tool of choice.
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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
The National Book Award Finalist is now a major motion picture directed by Marjane Sartrapi, starring Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley.
“Vivid and ethereal.”—The New York Times
“Radioactive is quite unlike any book I have ever read—part history, part love story, part art work and all parts sheer imaginative genius.”—Malcolm Gladwell
A visual journey into the life of Marie Curie, as told through the dazzling collage style of acclaimed author and artist Lauren Redniss.
Radioactive is the mesmerizing, landmark illustrated biography of Marie Curie, by acclaimed author and artist Lauren Redniss. Through brilliant visual storytelling, Redniss walks us through Curie’s life, which was marked by extraordinary scientific discovery and dramatic personal trauma—from her complex working and romantic relationship with Pierre Curie, to their discovery of two new scientific elements, to Pierre’s tragic death, to Marie’s two Nobel Prizes. A haunting and wondrous portrait of one of history’s most intriguing figures, Radioactive combines archival photos, images, and clippings with dazzling line drawings and a compelling narrative to tell Curie’s story. Far more than an art book or a graphic novel, Radioactive is a stunning visual biography and a true work of art.
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Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting
An intensely intellectual painter, Robert Motherwell is renowned for his distinctive Abstract Expressionist style. The seminal artist permeated his gestural works with an expressionism and austerity reflective of the human psyche; at the same time his oeuvre addressed political and humanitarian themes. Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting is an in-depth exploration of his artistic practice. Leading art scholars examine the American artist’s turn from Surrealism to abstraction and analyze the major series that developed over his fifty-year career. The catalogue studies the dialogue between Motherwell’s art and the nineteenth-century French painting tradition, investigates his relationship to Spanish techniques and processes, with an emphasis on their underlying political significance, and delves into Motherwell’s use of ochre pigment, with its evocation of both deep geological time and avant-garde practices.Read more
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Screenprinting: The Ultimate Studio Guide from Sketchbook to Squeegee
Screenprinting is in the midst of a popular revival among beginners, students, hobbyists and experts alike, but there are very few recent publications that give actual fundamental information on its techniques and processes. This book provides the missing manual on this very popular practice. It includes iInspirational step-by-steps with leading artists, illustrators and designers, including Ben Eine and Rob Ryan. In each step-by-step original work is created to showcase a key process or technique such as hand-cut stencils, colour blending and monoprinting. The information on materials and techniques, along with tips, insights and troubleshooting, will ensure today’s creatively minded screenprinters will be able to produce eye-catching work of their own. The book also gives valuable advice to the budding screenprinter on how to organize an exhibition or screenprinting event and promote and sell their work.Deliciously fresh and visual, with specially commissioned photographs and written by a vibrant, innovative group working and teaching at the very epicentre of the contemporary screenprinting scene, this book is the complete modern guide for screenprinters of all levels of knowledge and skill, and will have a vital presence in their studios and workshops.
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Scroll Ornaments of the Early Victorian Period: 71 Engravings (Dover Pictorial Archive)
A master of Victorian engraving, F. Knight created florid ornaments that embody the 19th-century love of the intricate, the fantastic, and the extravagant. This compilation of his engravings presents a versatile selection of borders, frames, scrolls, cartouches, arches, corners, and crests, in motifs featuring floral, animal, fantasy, and rococo patterns.Read more
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Share Your Joy: Mixed Media Shareable Art
Learn how to create adorable mixed-media art to send to loved ones, friends, and even strangers via snail mail—then share in the happiness it brings.Author Sarah J. Gardner has made it her mission to help others find their creativity and inspiration through mixed-media art. In Share Your Joy, she offers her idea for how to share joy via handmade postcards, note cards, and other items that can be mailed to anyone around the world and put a smile on their face. That’s where Sarah gets her joy, and with the techniques and step-by-step projects in this book, she will help you find it too.
Working on papers you have painted and that can be drawn and painted over (what Sarah calls “art papers”), you will learn to use collage, stenciling, found objects, watercolor and acrylic paints, and more to create art to share with others.
Included in the book are:
- Step-by-step projects for making shareable art
- Interviews with “art swappers” who’ve sent and received art for years
- Inspirational prompts, quotes, and affirmations to keep your creativity levels up
- Suggestions for how to make inspirational journals and sketchbooks to work inside
Experience the fun and happiness of making shareable, mixed-media art with Share Your Joy!
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