Prints

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909829152Author John PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Four Corners BooksPublisher Four Corners Books

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...

This revised work provides a basic introduction to prints and printmaking. The book provides explanations of different techniques of printmaking and illustrates both details and whole prints to show the effects that can be achieved. Woodcut, engraving...

The artist Angie Lewin has a unique vision of the natural world. Her hugely popular prints depict in intricate detail the native flora of a variety of environments, from salt marsh and Highland loch, to flower-strewn meadow and wild garden. Lewin finds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734640908Author Anthony T TroncaleFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Photo - Verso Publications LLCPublisher Photo - Verso Publications...

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...

Japanese Woodcut is a complete guide to the art and practice of 'mokuhanga'. It explains the delicate lines, luminous colour and intriguing compositions that first influenced the Impressionists in the nineteenth century, and presents this rich art form...

Prints have played a unique and vital role in the history of art and image. Yet printmaking remains a mysterious discipline, often considered in terms of reproduction instead of as an innovative and highly considered creative process. Among the...

As beautiful and rigorous as an Escher work itself, this book is the classic study of a great maverick who so memorably linked the world of imagemaking with geometry and paradox. Escher's works, from the great master prints to numerous drawings, are...

A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and practical wood engraving manual. Wood Engraving is an easily-followed, practical manual on wood engraving for beginners. Learn the processes of printing and engraving through clear explanations and use the...

This practical guide explains the techniques and provides ideas and inspiration to get you printing with natural dyes at home. It shows you how even with basic materials (such as the potato) you can make stunning patterns and get hooked on printmaking...

Printed artworks were often ephemeral, but in the early modern period, exchanges between print and other media were common, setting off chain reactions of images and objects that endured. Paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, musical or scientific...

London is the only city in the world where you could ever find Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favorite tipple, and where members of the Bloomsbury Group hail a black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999487638Author Greg McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint McMillan MediaPublisher McMillan MediaWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Learn to create unique, contemporary works of art with traditional carving tools and printmaking techniques. Step-by-step projects and creative lino prints make it fun and easy. Aspiring artists, illustrators, art students, and art hobbyists will...

By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britain's expanding empire. Before the age of photography, the most widely used means of creating a visual record of the changing...

Superb Yokai images from the world's leading museums and private collections!Japan's vast pantheon of supernatural creatures includes demons (yokai), monsters, ogres (oni), ghosts (yurei) and magicians-mythical beings from folklore and popular culture...

This practical book is a step-by-step guide to the process of wood engraving. With a strong emphasis on drawing a design, it explains the range of mark-making, texture and tonal subtleties that are so unique to this form of relief printmaking. It...

More than three centuries after Maria Sibylla Merian established herself as a scientific trailblazer-and after more than two centuries of obscurity-the work of this pioneering naturalist and artist is being rediscovered. Merian's work, The New Book of...

In 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...

The Risograph printer is at the forefront of a new creative explosion. More and more artists and designers all over the world are rediscovering this stencil duplicator for themselves, sparking a unique and unexpected renaissance in analogue printing. And...

If you were a consumer of literature in the nineteenth century, chances are the volumes in your library featured the illustrations of Gustave Dore. From the Bible to Shakespeare, Balzac to Milton, Cervantes to Poe, Dore's intricate, romantic, and...

From Hello Kitty to Maneki Neko-Japan is the epicentre of global cat culture!Whether lurking in corners or taking center stage, cats are a ubiquitous presence in Japanese art. Depending on the situation, they may invite good fortune, prompt the viewer to...

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...

The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486277196Author Gustave DoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264523Author Bohumil HrabalFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressDimensions(mm) 200mm * 170mm * 20mm

A landmark book presenting the early "deluxe" versions of Hiroshige's Edo prints for the first time!Utagawa Hiroshige's unique landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), first published in the 1850s, is among the best-known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780671949Author Bill FickFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 1220g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756243379Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

How to make block prints for art prints, greeting cards, invitations, signs and more using both linoleum and wood. Covers transferring a design, carving, printing by hand in one or more colors, clean up, editioning, and tearing down paper. Detailed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486237664Author Jim HarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 1060gDimensions(mm)...

The short intermezzo between the Great War and World War II and especially the "roaring twenties" with their a thrill of speed were a period of radical social change and artistic development, and of vibrant metropolitan life and. Born into a merchant...

During his lifetime, Hokusai was one of the most revered artists working in the ukiyo-e school of painting and printmaking. This book gathers the finest examples of Hokusai's breathtaking prints, including his iconic The Great Wave off Kanagawa, views of...

A practical and inspirational book of printmaking techniques and modern working practices. This book is your basic and essential guide to a wide range of printmaking techniques. Through step-by-step instructions, it covers the processes of monotype,...

Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan during the Meiji era.The importance of early railways in the industrialization of the United States and Europe is a fact all of us are familiar with. To...

The ultimate guide to today’s hottest craft trend! Learn how to personalize your world with Sublimation Crafting! Join creative crafter, author, and sublimation expert Cori George as she demystifies this fast-growing art form and provides all the...

Etching can seem mysterious and inaccessible, but this practical book guides you through the process to reveal the potential of this distinctive means of creating artists' prints. With clear instructions and visual guides, it explains the many ways that...

A vividly illustrated catalogue of linocuts by the Modern British printmakers of the Grosvenor School of Art. The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver Iain McNab in 1925. Situated in London's...