Printmaking
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Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art
Discover Japanese art like no other. Originally created by the artists of the ukiyo-e ‘school of the floating world’ to advertise brothels in 17th-century Yoshiwara, these popular ‘spring pictures’ (shunga) transcended class and gender in Japan for almost 300 years. These tender, humorous and brightly coloured pieces celebrate sexual pleasure in all its forms, culminating in the beautiful, yet graphic, work of iconic artists Utamaro, Hokusai and Kunisada. This catalogue of a major international exhibition aims to answer some key questions about what shunga is and why was it produced. Erotic Japanese art was heavily suppressed in Japan from the 1870s onwards as part of a process of cultural ‘modernisation’ that imported many contemporary western moral values. Only in the last twenty years or so has it been possible to publish unexpurgated examples in Japan and this ground-breaking publication presents this fascinating art in its historical and cultural context for the first time. Within Japan, shunga has continued to influence modern forms of art, including manga, anime and Japanese tattoo art. Drawing on the latest scholarship and featuring over 400 images of works from major public and private collections, this landmark book sheds new light on this unique art form within Japanese social and cultural history. Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese art is published to accompany an exhibition at the British Museum from October 2013 to January 2014.Read more
£39.00£47.50Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art
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Sketch book: Large Blank Sketchbook for Kids, Teens and Adults. Perfect for Drawing, Sketching and Creative Doodling. (8.5″ x 11″, 114pages), (Notebook, Workbook, Handbook,…
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Hight quality sketchbook perfect for Girls, Boys, Teens and Adults who love to create
Specifications:
- ¦ Matte cover with premium design
- ¦ Large Size (8,5″ x 11″)
- ¦ Best quality blank, white paper
- ¦ 114 pages
Perfect for a gift.
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Stamp Bugs: 25 Stamps and 2 Ink Pads
Bumblebees, dragonflies, fireflies, ladybugs, spiders! This sturdy matchbox-style box contains twenty-five wood-backed rubber stamps in an assortment of buggy shapes and textures. A veritable kit of bug parts―heads, bodies, antennae, legs ― Stamp Bugs contains everything you need to create your favorite insects or invent new ones! The combinations are infinite.Read more
£17.50£19.00Stamp Bugs: 25 Stamps and 2 Ink Pads
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Steam Punk Adult Coloring Book: Journey to a Relaxing Steampunk Oasis: Delve into the Delights of the Victorian Era and Rejuvenate with Mindful Coloring
Description: “Immerse yourself in a world where Victorian elegance intertwines with the marvels of gears, mechanical wonders, corsets, ships, and planes. With intricate designs that beckon your creativity, this unique steampunk coloring book offers a therapeutic escape, transporting you to a bygone era of innovation and adventure.
Indulge in a relaxing and stress-relieving coloring experience that sparks your imagination and revitalizes your spirit. Unleash your artistic prowess as you bring these enchanting illustrations to life, rediscovering the joy of creativity in the steampunk realm.
Embark on an extraordinary journey of relaxation, adventure, and self-expression with this captivating steampunk coloring book.Features:
- Size: 8.5 x 11 inches, providing ample space for detailed coloring
- Single-sided pages to prevent bleed-through, allowing for a variety of coloring tools
- Intricate designs inspired by Victorian aesthetics and steampunk elements
- Therapeutic and stress-relieving coloring experience for adults and teens
- Immerse yourself in a world of gears, mechanical wonders, corsets, ships, and planes
- Spark your imagination and unleash your creativity with each captivating illustration
- Perfect for steampunk enthusiasts, coloring enthusiasts, and those seeking relaxation and artistic expression”
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The Art of Print: From Hogarth to Hockney: Three Hundred Years of Printmaking
Prints have played a unique and important role in the history of art and image. This engaging book explores the numerous ways artists have embraced printmaking over the course of three centuries. Each of the works illustrated has been selected to reflect the broad spectrum of techniques and purposes, which are explained in clear and concise terms. The featured artworks are among the highlights of Tate’s extensive but little-known print collection, a remarkable grouping no book has previously attempted to survey. Among the leading artists for whom printmaking has been an important and experimental part of their practice are William Hogarth, George Stubbs, William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, Pablo Picasso, Barbara Hepworth, Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud, Bridget Riley, Paula Rego, William Kentridge and Kara Walker. Yet printmaking remains somewhat mysterious as a topic, perhaps because original prints are often understood as ‘reproductions’, or wrongly given a similar status to preparatory sketches and archival material. In fact, prints are finished artworks, often the result of highly considered creative experimentation with print processes. Chapters are structured around different types of printmaking, allowing each section to reveal the various ways artists have engaged with the different techniques. In addition to complete reproductions of over 120 works, carefully selected details enable the reader to examine closely some of the remarkable visual effects seen in the prints.Read more
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The Art of Print: From Hogarth to Hockney: Three Hundred Years of Printmaking
Prints have played a unique and important role in the history of art and image. This engaging book explores the numerous ways artists have embraced printmaking over the course of three centuries. Each of the works illustrated has been selected to reflect the broad spectrum of techniques and purposes, which are explained in clear and concise terms. The featured artworks are among the highlights of Tate’s extensive but little-known print collection, a remarkable grouping no book has previously attempted to survey. Among the leading artists for whom printmaking has been an important and experimental part of their practice are William Hogarth, George Stubbs, William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, Pablo Picasso, Barbara Hepworth, Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud, Bridget Riley, Paula Rego, William Kentridge and Kara Walker. Yet printmaking remains somewhat mysterious as a topic, perhaps because original prints are often understood as ‘reproductions’, or wrongly given a similar status to preparatory sketches and archival material. In fact, prints are finished artworks, often the result of highly considered creative experimentation with print processes. Chapters are structured around different types of printmaking, allowing each section to reveal the various ways artists have engaged with the different techniques. In addition to complete reproductions of over 120 works, carefully selected details enable the reader to examine closely some of the remarkable visual effects seen in the prints.Read more
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The Disasters of War (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
The strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) are among Francisco Goya’s most powerful works and one of the masterpieces of Western civilization. Goya’s model for his visual indictment of war and its horrors was the Spanish insurrection of 1808 and the resulting Peninsular War with Napoleonic France. The bloody conflict and the horrible famine of Madrid were witnessed by Goya himself, or were revealed to him from the accounts of friends and contemporaries. From 1810 to 1820, he worked to immortalize them in a series of etchings.
The artist himself never saw the results. The etchings were not published until 1863, some 35 years after his death. By then, the passions of the Napoleonic era had subsided and the satirical implications in Goya’s work were less likely to offend. The Dover edition reproduces in its original size the second state of this first edition, which contained 80 prints. Three additional prints not in the 1863 edition are also included here, making this the most complete collection possible of the etchings Goya intended for this series. The bitter, biting captions are reprinted, along with the new English translations, as are the original title page and preface.Read more
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The English Print 1688–1802 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Describes the growth of the print trade in England during the 18th century. The text considers the variety of published material – history prints, topography, portraiture, satire, propaganda – the channels of distribution and the various audiences to which prints were addressed.Read more
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The Printmaking Bible: The complete guide to materials and techniques
Inspirational and authoritative, The Printmaking Bible is a complete guide to this traditional art practice that constantly evolves through the creative input of each new generation of artists.
This guide has been created to reflect developments in different techniques and to showcase examples of new work by leading international artists across a range of print styles.
Broken down into five chapters, each focuses on a major print medium: intaglio, relief, lithography, monotype/monoprint, and screenprinting. This definitive volume presents the tips and tools needed to create great artwork at any level. A brief overview of each medium is followed by illustrated step-by-step instructions, detailed historical information, troubleshooting tips, an extensive resource section, and interviews with working artists.
This comprehensive guide is ideal for students and professionals alike.
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The Ransom Note Sticker Book: Thousands of Letters for Your Anonymous Messages
A chunky sticker book with thousands of individual letters that can be turned into uniquely idiosyncratic messages or decorations of all kinds.Everyone loves the cool graphic look of the classic ransom note, and letters cut from newspapers make any message a little edgy yet playful.
Now The Ransom Note Sticker Book makes it easy to spell out anything you like and capture that unique look. Thousands of stickers – A to Z, plus accents, numerals, and punctuation – in a host of fonts and typefaces are ready for your messages.
You can use them to add colour to your journals, you can name your stuff, or you can give a valentine’s card a mysterious anonymous touch… Stationery, wrapping paper, and collages will all benefit from these alphabets, and they make the perfect gift for the crafter, journal-keeper or scrap-booker.With a grungy, vintage letterpress vibe, the letters irresistibly recall the age of print newspapers – and the collection includes type ornaments, woodblock illustrations and a range of accents for elegant, multilingual ransom notes.
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Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers
The history of the Folly Cove Designers (1941-1969) – one of America’s longest-running artist collectives – is explored through their work. Folly Cove Designers (officially 1941-1969) was a mostly all-women block printing collective.The group was founded by Caldecott-award winner and beloved children’s book author/illustrator Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios (of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel fame). Together the Gloucester, MA-based group produced over three hundred distinct designs conveying personal and regional narratives through the use of shared design principles and the compelling language of pattern. The group was propelled to international fame through commercial contracts with major retailers (F. Schumacher, Lord & Taylor, etc.), articles in leading periodicals such as Life, and participation in seminal fine craft exhibitions.
As the first comprehensive history of the Folly Cove Designers, Trailblazing Women Printmakers documents and celebrates the group’s tremendous success and the incredible artistry of its members. Through historical ephemera and photographs, Sarni explores the history, the work, and the group dynamics of the Folly Cove Collective.
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Twenty Concepts in Woodblock Printing (Small Crafts)
This inspiring book introduces twenty concepts for printmakers to use to enhance their work ranging from abstraction to composition, and from symbolism to boundaries. It focuses on woodblock printmaking but the principles it covers can be applied to all graphical and pictorial arts. Mainly pictorial, it includes fine examples of finished work from leading makers and students, and is a remarkable and thought-provoking addition to any maker’s library.Read more
£10.90£12.30Twenty Concepts in Woodblock Printing (Small Crafts)
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Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print
The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”), reflects the rich history and way of life in Japan hundreds of years ago. Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print takes a thematic approach to this iconic Japanese art form, considering prints by subject matter: geisha and courtesans, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, erotica, nature, historical subjects and even images of foreigners in Japan.An artist himself, author Frederick Harris–a well-known American collector who lived in Japan for 50 years–pays special attention to the methods and materials employed in Japanese printmaking. The book traces the evolution of ukiyo-e from its origins in metropolitan Edo (Tokyo) art culture as black and white illustrations, to delicate two-color prints and multicolored designs. Advice to admirers on how to collect, care for, view and buy Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints rounds out this book of charming, carefully selected prints.
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£21.80£23.70Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print
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V&A: William Morris Animals Mini Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
A playful selection of textiles with beautifully intricate embroidery from William Morris, part of the V&A’s national collection of textiles and fashion, that spans a period of more than 5,000 years. In this mini wall calendar you will find a selection of textiles such as tapestries, cushions, and pillowcases. 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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Watercolours 2024 – Diary – Buchkalender – Taschenkalender – 10×15: Magneto Diary
Magneto Diary Watercolours The Magneto Diary Watercolours calendar with its distinctive design drawn with the ink brush brings cheerfulness and lightness to your life every day. • Pocket calendar in the format 10 x 15 cm • One week at a glance • 6-language calendar • International holidays • Moon phases • Yearly overview and monthly overviews • Plenty of space for notes • Envelope with magnetic closure • Coloured attachment papers • Pocket for business cards etc. Thanks to the sophisticated features of this weekly calendar, the planning for the pleas: Inside you will find a ribbon page marker that quickly leads to the last entry, as well as a small pocket that can be used for business cards and others. Coloured attachment papers give the book calendar a special touch. With a practical magnetic closure, the appointment calendar can be securely closed. The calendar in six languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch) reliably informs about important international holidays and the moon phases. Annual and monthly overviews provide even more overview. In a handy format of 10 x 15 cm, the stylish mini diary is perfect for on the go. Full of attention to detail, this diary diary is a charming gift – for your loved one or even for yourself. The publishing team wishes you a lot of fun with this attractive organiser!Read more
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Watercolours 2024 – Diary – Buchkalender – Taschenkalender – 10×15: Magneto Diary
Magneto Diary Watercolours The Magneto Diary Watercolours calendar with its distinctive design drawn with the ink brush brings cheerfulness and lightness to your life every day. • Pocket calendar in the format 10 x 15 cm • One week at a glance • 6-language calendar • International holidays • Moon phases • Yearly overview and monthly overviews • Plenty of space for notes • Envelope with magnetic closure • Coloured attachment papers • Pocket for business cards etc. Thanks to the sophisticated features of this weekly calendar, the planning for the pleas: Inside you will find a ribbon page marker that quickly leads to the last entry, as well as a small pocket that can be used for business cards and others. Coloured attachment papers give the book calendar a special touch. With a practical magnetic closure, the appointment calendar can be securely closed. The calendar in six languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch) reliably informs about important international holidays and the moon phases. Annual and monthly overviews provide even more overview. In a handy format of 10 x 15 cm, the stylish mini diary is perfect for on the go. Full of attention to detail, this diary diary is a charming gift – for your loved one or even for yourself. The publishing team wishes you a lot of fun with this attractive organiser!Read more
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Watercolours 2024 – Diary – Buchkalender – Taschenkalender – 16×22: Magneto Diary
Magneto Diary Watercolours The Magneto Diary Watercolours calendar with its distinctive design drawn with the ink brush brings cheerfulness and lightness to your life every day. • Pocket calendar in the format 16 x 22 cm • One week at a glance • 6-language calendar • International holidays • Moon phases • Yearly overview and monthly overviews • Plenty of space for notes • Envelope with magnetic closure • Coloured attachment papers • Pocket for business cards etc. Thanks to the sophisticated features of this weekly calendar, the planning for the pleas: Inside you will find a ribbon page marker that quickly leads to the last entry, as well as a small pocket that can be used for business cards and others. Coloured attachment papers give the book calendar a special touch. With a practical magnetic closure, the appointment calendar can be securely closed. The calendar in six languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch) reliably informs about important international holidays and the moon phases. Annual and monthly overviews provide even more overview. In a handy format of 16 x 22 cm, the stylish diary is perfect for on the go. Full of attention to detail, this diary diary is a charming gift – for your loved one or even for yourself. The publishing team wishes you a lot of fun with this attractive organiser!Read more
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Watercolours 2024 – Diary – Buchkalender – Taschenkalender – 16×22: Magneto Diary
Magneto Diary Watercolours The Magneto Diary Watercolours calendar with its distinctive design drawn with the ink brush brings cheerfulness and lightness to your life every day. • Pocket calendar in the format 16 x 22 cm • One week at a glance • 6-language calendar • International holidays • Moon phases • Yearly overview and monthly overviews • Plenty of space for notes • Envelope with magnetic closure • Coloured attachment papers • Pocket for business cards etc. Thanks to the sophisticated features of this weekly calendar, the planning for the pleas: Inside you will find a ribbon page marker that quickly leads to the last entry, as well as a small pocket that can be used for business cards and others. Coloured attachment papers give the book calendar a special touch. With a practical magnetic closure, the appointment calendar can be securely closed. The calendar in six languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch) reliably informs about important international holidays and the moon phases. Annual and monthly overviews provide even more overview. In a handy format of 16 x 22 cm, the stylish diary is perfect for on the go. Full of attention to detail, this diary diary is a charming gift – for your loved one or even for yourself. The publishing team wishes you a lot of fun with this attractive organiser!Read more
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William Hogarth: Visions in Print
Hogarth’s pictures are among the most iconic of the eighteenth century – his cacophonous crowds, bustling streets, polite or not-sopolite companies, and all too revealing tales of human folly, vividly bring the world around him to life. Their fame and popularity rests, above all, on their widespread circulation as prints, not only in England but around the globe, from the artist’s lifetime to today. Having first trained as an engraver, this remained an important aspect of his art and success. It is in print that he is often at his most creative and original, capturing, in his own words, ‘the perpetual fluctuations in the manners of the times’. Taking its cue from the portfolio collections Hogarth himself curated, this book gathers together a selection of his best loved and most inventive prints.Read more
£7.60£12.30William Hogarth: Visions in Print
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William Morris Gallery Mini Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
William Morris was a renowned artist, textile designer and activist. Associated with the founding of the Arts and Crafts Movement, his work has an appeal that is still felt today. Featuring 12 celebrated pieces from the collection of the William Morris Gallery, this mini calendar showcases the beauty and flair of the Morris & Co aesthetic, featuring a selection of wallpapers and fabrics designed by Morris himself, as well as renowned colleagues and contemporaries John Henry Dearle, Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, and daughter May Morris. Included within are vibrant designs such as Lily and Pomegranate, Compton, Yare and Daffodil. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.
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William Morris Gallery Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
William Morris was a renowned artist, textile designer and activist. A pioneer of the Arts and Crafts Movement, his work remains as popular today as ever. Featuring 12 celebrated designs from the collection of the William Morris Gallery, this calendar showcases the beauty and flair of the Morris & Co aesthetic, featuring a selection of wallpapers and fabrics designed by Morris himself, as well as renowned colleagues and contemporaries John Henry Dearle and Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo. Included within are stunning designs such as Golden Lily, Seaweed, Wallflower 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.
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William Morris: Seaweed Wallpaper Design (Foiled Journal) (Flame Tree Notebooks)
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. And they’re powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling gift. This example features William Morris: Seaweed.Read more
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Wood Engraving: How to Do It
Wood Engraving is an easily followed, practical manual on wood engraving for the beginner, written by a master in the field. The processes of printing and engraving are clearly explained, together with their material requirements. Up-to-date variations on techniques, and all the tips and methods that the author has found helpful in 30 years as a practitioner are included. The book is also a beautiful object in its own right and as the author Simon Brett’s work is highly collectible. It is a must have for all those who treasure his work and fine wood engraving in general.Read more
£19.00Wood Engraving: How to Do It
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