Printmaking as therapy : frameworks for freedom / Lucy Mueller White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Lucy Mueller, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art therapy.

Prints--Technique.

Prints.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Jessica Kingsley Pub, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author explores the therapeutic advantages of printmaking. She also describes its roots outside art therapy. Relief printing, intaglio, planographic or surface processes, and stencilling are all covered in detail, with many ideas for incorporating them into art therapy sessions.

Contents:

Intro

Printmaking as Therapy: Frameworks for Freedom

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Why Choose Printmaking for Art Therapy?

Product, process and person

Variety of expression: lines and shapes

Therapeutic distance

Sustaining a vision

Structure and containment

Selection of an appropriate process

Chapter 2 A Brief History of Printmaking

Printmaking is basic

Connection between materials and function

Relief processes: stamps, woodcuts

Intaglio processes: engraving, etching

Planographic (surface) processes: lithographs, monotypes

Screen processes: stencil, silk screen

Contemporary processes

Chapter 3 General Information

Creating and holding a place to print

Teaching a skill

Archiving: signing and editioning

Mixing printmaking and other art media

Therapeutic discussion of prints

Indirect process

Underestimating artistic potential

Ratings for techniques

Chapter 4 Relief Printing and Stamping: Focus on the Process

Relief printing: the very beginning

Instructions for finger or thumb printing

Stamp printing: focus on process

General set up for stamp printing

Instructions for stamp printing from found objects

Commercially available stamps

Instructions for making your own stamps

Instructions for fabric printing

Artistic and clinical applications

Chapter 5 Relief Printing Plates

Instructions for Styrofoam tray printing: process for line drawings

Artistic and clinical considerations

Commercially available relief plates

Instructions for collagraph relief plates

Instructions for simple one-session collagraph relief plates

Instructions for two-session collagraph relief plates

Instructions for glue plates

Chapter 6 Intaglio Processes: Focus on Lines

Focus on lines.

Advantages and disadvantages

Equipment and materials

Instructions for drypoint printing on Plexiglass ®

Instructions for monoprints

Variations: jigsaw or group plates

Instructions for intaglio Styrofoam tray printing

Instructions for simple one-session collagraph intaglio plates

Instructions for two-session collagraph intaglio plates

Instructions for glue prints

Chapter 7 Planographic Process: The Magic of Monotypes

Planographic process

Monotypes: the painterly print

Basic monotype supplies

Instructions for simple foldover (inkblot) monotypes

Instructions for mystery monotypes

Instructions for simple reductive monotypes

Instructions for additive monotypes: the painterly print

Instructions for monomask monotypes

Ghost prints: reprinting

Instructions for multiprint monotypes

Instructions for watercolor monotypes

Combination monotypes and embellishing

Art of one's own: nurturing the nurturer

Chapter 8 Stencil Process: Focus on Products

Stencil and screen processes

Instructions for stenciling

Chapter 9 Simple Screen Processes

Simple screens

Instructions for cut or torn paper screens

Instructions for shadow screens

Instructions for contact paper screens

Instructions for painted screens

Instructions for non-toxic screen printing using commercially available supplies

Instructions for tin can printing

Chapter 10 Putting it Together: Artists' Books, Sustaining a Vision

History of books

Artists' books

What is a book?

Making books in therapy

Technical skills

Book forms

Chapter 11 When to Use Printmaking for Art Therapy

The American Abstract Expressionists.

Art history and art therapy

Advantages and disadvantages

Appendix: Sources for Supplies

References and Additional Reading

Glossary

Subject Index

Author Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283906807

1283906805

9781417503391

1417503394

9781846423352

184642335X

OCLC:

228069291