How to identify prints : a complete guide to manual and mechanical processes from woodcut to inkjet / Bamber Gascoigne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gascoigne, Bamber.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prints--History.

Prints.

History.

Prints--Technique.

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Complete guide to manual and mechanical processes from woodcut to inkjet

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, [2004]

Summary:

Since its first publication in 1986, this comprehensive guide has established itself as the essential reference book for print and book collectors, dealers in prints and illustrated books, art librarians, art professors and students, and everyone interested in graphic art.

Is a particular print a woodcut, an etching, or a lithograph? Is it an original stipple engraving or a photogravure reproduction? Is the color printed or added by hand? Arranged in self-contained sections that can be consulted individually or as part of a larger research operation, the book helps one identify any printed image. Included are manual methods, and also the mechanical processes that constitute the vast majority of printed images around us. In all some ninety different techniques are described, both monochrome and color.

Essential aspects of printing history and the printmaking craft receive full coverage, and examples are given of the identifying features that help to reveal the type of print, such as varieties of line and tone. Of particular interest are the many illustrations of enlarged details showing the different appearance of various techniques under strong magnification.

The one great change during the last twenty years has been the high-quality inkjet and laser prints that are now part of everyday life. How can one tell whether an attractive image is valuable in its own right or merely an appealing reproduction? As cheap printing processes become more sophisticated, it inevitably becomes harder to identify correctly an image of this kind. Bamber Gascoigne's new observations in this area, added for this revised edition, will prove invaluable.

Contents:

I The prints

Print Families

1 The three types of print

2 Other images known as prints

3 Manual prints and process prints

4 Monochrome prints and colour prints

Manual Prints

Monochrome

Relief

5 Woodcuts

6 Wood engravings

7 Metal relief prints

8 Modern relief methods

Intaglio

9 Engravings

10 Etchings

11 Drypoints

12 Line engravings

13 Steel engravings

14 Crayon manner and stipple engravings

15 Soft ground etchings

16 Mezzotints

17 Aquatints

18 Other total methods in intaglio

Planographic

19 Lithographs

20 Transfer lithographs

Colour

21 Chiaroscuro woodcuts

22 Colour woodcuts

23 Tinted wood engravings and colour wood engravings

24 Relief colour from metal blocks

25 Modern relief methods in colour

26 Colour mezzotints, aquatints, stipple engravings

27 Tinted lithographs

28 Colour lithographs

Mixed method

29 Baxter prints

30 Nelson prints

31 New methods in colour

Process Prints

32 Categories of process print

33 Line blocks

34 Relief halftones

35 Nature prints

36 Photogalvanographs

37 Line photogravures

38 Tone photogravures

39 Gravures (machine-printed)

40 Collotypes

41 Photolithographs

42 Relief

43 Intaglio

44 Planographic

Screenprints and Non-Prints

45 Screenprints

46 Monotypes and cliches-verre

II Keys to identification

47 Images with printed text

48 Words below the image: what they say

49 Words below the image: how they look

50 The plate mark

51 How the ink lies

52 Varieties of line

53 Varieties of tone

54 Varieties of face

55 Differences

56 The pleasure of oddities

57 Is the image printed?

58 Original or reproduction?

59 Embossing

60 Lift ground

61 States

62 Ruling machines, multiple tint tools, medal engraving

63 Prepared, manufactured and mechanical tints

64 Colour print or coloured print?

65 Tint or colour?

66 Colour from one or more impressions?

67 Colour separation

68 Register

69 How many printed colours?

70 Paper

71 Process, mechanical: stereotyping

72 Process, chemical: electrotyping

73 Process, photochemical

74 Halftone screens

75 Illustrated books

76 Postcards

77 Banknotes and stamps

78 Newspapers and magazines

79 Around the house

80 A Print Vocabulary: a guide to consistent usage

82-106 The Sherlock Holmes Approach.

Notes:

Originally published: 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (page [198]) and index.

ISBN:

0500284806

OCLC:

63129098