Product Description

Customer Reviews (2)

A great book to appreciate
The book has very clean design. Large format. Each print is illustrated on single page, following with artists info, concept behind and the method of each piece. It is a fancinating journey into the Chinese printmaking as well as the culture testing. Overall a great book to buy if you are really into woodcut, and wanna study some Chinese traditional wood carving methods.

Ótima compra. Informações melhores ainda
A Xilogravura chinesa é uma tradição muito antiga que foi bruscamente interrompida por questões políticas. "Chinese Printmaking Today (...)" é parte do esforço para documentar a retomada da produção dos artistas xilogravadores chineses e trazer à tona um pedaço de uma das culturas mais refinadas da humanidade. As gravuras expostas são, quando pouco, maravilhosas, e as informações, riquíssimas. Não só vale a compra mas, sem sombra de dúvida, é um dever do artista xilogravador conhecer esses trabalhos. ... Read more

Amazon.com Review
Another in the Abbeville's Tiny Folios series, this littlebook is a real gem. The Art Institute of Chicago houses one of theworld's most beautiful and comprehensive collections of Japanesewoodblock prints in the world. Clarence Buckingham, of the famedChicago family, donated 12,000 prints alone. The book covers thisexquisite collection of work from the 17th to 19th centuries in foursections: Primitives, Courtesans, Actors, and Landscapes. It includeswork by well-known masters such as Hiroshige, Hokusia, and Utamaro, aswell as lesser-known talents such as Shun'ei, Shunko, andKiyonaga. While the trim size is small, none of the subtle colors,delicate paper texture, or intricate fabric design is lost. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (9)

Nice LITTLE book
Contains a broad collection of Japanese woodblock prints spanning about 300 years, nicely divided by subject matter. Please note that the page size is only 4.5 x 4.25-in. and the average size of the prints are only 2 x 3-in. Wish it had been in a larger format. However there are 320 pages in this book.

Tiny book
I purchased this book for my brother, thinking that it was regular size. When I visited him I discovered that it was big if you are the size of a gnome.

NICE SURPRISES COME IN A SMALL PACKAGE?!
A true pocket-size book of Japanese prints from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, this little guy packs in a good size punch in terms of number of woodblock prints (276 in all).Only 4 "x 4 ½" in size, the color reproductions of the prints are surprisingly good.Good and bright colors and one print on each page.Yeah, they're small, but you don't need to squint, and hey, you can stuff it into your pocket easily.The book is divided into four print categories - Primitives", "Courtesans", "Actors" and "Landscapes" and contains many less-known ukiyo-e artists - Eishi, Shunsho, Buncho, and many others that you would not see in other usual publications on Japanese woodblock prints.At the end of the book, there is an index on Kabuki actors represented in the prints and one on all the prints in the book (the latter is a rather interesting one). A nice "little" book filled with some pleasant surprises.

Nice, but small book
I agree with the other reviews when they say that it is nice, but a very small book.I hadn't paid attention to the size when I ordered it.It is very informative, though, and I did learn a lot from it

A very small book, with smaller pictures.
Many or the pictures are only 1-1/2" x 3-1/4".
The largest are about 2-1/2" x 3-1/4". ... Read more

Product Description
Published to celebrate 50 years of printmaking in Cape Dorset, this publication pays tribute to the Inuit community's continued dynamism by pairing new and innovative work from Kinngait Studios with the original 1959 collection, shown for the first time in five decades. Essays describing, first-hand, the hard work and resolve that went into making the first prints are paired with essays providing an inside view of the studios today and the challenges they continue to face. Magnificently illustrated with work by elder, established and emerging artists, notably, Josephie Pootoogook, Tudlik Akesuk and Lukta Qiatsuq and Annie Pootoogook, Shuvinai Ashoona and Jutai Toonoo. ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (3)

A Great Beginning
If you want the truth, the struggle, the passion seen from both sides, begin here. Including are beautiful, intense posters, poetry, and more from Palestinian and Israeli artists. But this book goes beyond images and words, it goes into the hearts of the Palestinians and Israelis who want peace: a peace that can only be obtained by listening to the PEOPLE, setting disruptive, invasive, militaristic politics aside.

Gives voice to unheard views
This book shows work up to 1996, so it does not contain any events from the past five years, or deal with the daily violence that we see on the news today. However, it does show that the violence is nothing new, and is not exclusive to the "Arab terrorists." The main focus of the book are how both sides view peace, showing the suffering on both sides. A point of view which never gets aired in the US media is represented by Israeli artists who openly acknowledge the brutality their government has forced upon the Palestinians. The book shows posters that foster peace between the two people, and were banned by the Israeli government.

Anyone who has any real understanding of this troubled region knows that true peace can only exist between equals, and that despite all the name calling, both the Palestinians and the Jews have a right to live with dignity.

From a graphic point of view, much of the posters from Israel maintain a more familiar Western commercial look, while many of the Palestinian works resemble the grafitti that covers the refugee camps.

Foolish Buyers Buy Insidious Books
The "Editor" of this propaganda is a polemicist for the Palestinian attempt to destroy the State of Israel. ... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (7)

Wild Women: Stitched Art Brooches (Twenty to Make)
I really liked this book especially since I bead embroider. Very innovation ideas with simple instructions. I get motivated looking at this book, but I would of liked to see this book larger with more patterns and templates actual size.

FUN.
Fun to look at, very colorful, kindof like the small size.Good ideas, overall good little book.

Wild Women
What a wonderful, creative book.I absolutely love it! The instructions are clear and the pictures are colorful.

wild women
[[ASIN:1844483029 Wild Women: Stitched Art Brooches (Twenty to Make)
That it was art of 'off the shelf' materials rather than basics that could be made into an individual art work.

Stitched Brooches
This is a small book packed with ideas and patterns with good instruction on how to create them.If you like beading and working small this is a great book ... Read more

Product Description
Essay: " Rembrandt and the Art of Printmaking," by Laura Anderson, Director of AcquisitionsPages: 67Published: Summer, 2004 ... Read more

Product Description
"Directions in Art" explores the work of contemporary artists in their areas of speciality. Each book examines the different techniques and effects used by the artists, as well as the source of their inspiration, their influence and choice of subject matter. Each book covers a mix of well-known and lesser-known British and international artists. There is analysis of a key or representative work of art for each artist, offering an understanding of their style and direction. Technique boxes explain the basics of key techniques, case studies and quotes from artist. ... Read more

Product Description
A comprehensive technical guide to relief printmaking, describing both traditional and progressive modes of practice and introducing Chinese and Japanese block printing. It also includes the work of international artists and personal descriptions of their methods, making it a practical and inspirational guide for both students and practitioners. ... Read more

Product Description
LEVEL: Key Stage 4 onwards. Vivid, innovative printmaking examples demonstrate the excitement of a multitude of images being created by contemporary artists today. Clear, concise text and step-by-step visuals allow you and your students to experience the excitement of creating your own relief, monotype and silk-screen prints. ... Read more

Product Description
With extensiveinformation on exhibitions, collections, and artists, this volume highlights works by influential artists as Eugene Grigsby Jr., Woodsworth Jarrell, Sam Gillium, John E. Dowell Jr., Kenneth Nolan, and Romare Bearden. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Draws upon Brandywine's impressive collection
Founded by master printer Allan Edmunds in 1972, The Brandywine Workshop has instructed students and artists in the Philadelphia community in the art and craft of printmaking for more than thirty years. Three Decades Of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection draws upon Brandywine's impressive archival collection to showcase 147 color and black/white photographs of work by a series of such renowned artists as Eugene Grigsby, Woodsworth Jarrell, and Margo Humphrey to reveal printmaking as an innovative contemporary art form. Informative Essays by Halima Taha, Lois H. Johnson, Patricia Smith, Keith A. Morrison, and Claude Elliot highlight the history and contributions of Brandywine. Enhanced with a glossary and a bibliography, Three Decades Of American Printmaking is a welcome and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, and academic library American Art History reference collections and Art School curriculum supplemental reading lists.
... Read more

Product Description
This is a comprehensive reference to the art of printmaking from one of the world's leading experts in the field. It features dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted art related media & organisations. Krishna Reddy is one of the world's most innovative printmakers. His unique visualisation of the print plate as a sculpted surface and intaglio printing as three-dimensional, alongside his discovery of the principles of colour viscosity have greatly simplified the technical process while at the same time increased the expressiveness and intensity of the image. "New Ways of Colour Printmaking" is a comprehensive and practical reference to the art of printmaking - written by one of the world's foremost experts - that gives readers a rare insight into the workings of the medium, including an exhaustive list of formulas, materials, and equipment, as well as simple step-by-step instructions. ... Read more

Product Description
One of the most glorious and creative periods in the history of colour printmaking occurred in 18th-century France. Newly invented engraving and etching techniques were combined with new ways of printing a single image from multiple plates, allowing printmakers to replicate a broad palette of colours using variants of only four: blue, red, yellow and black. The resulting prints were so believable that they were often called "printed paintings" and "engraved drawings". The names of the masters who pioneered these techniques are largely only familiar to scholars and collectors, but the artists whose compositions they copied include some of the greatest talents of the period - Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard and Boilly all feature, along with many others. One of very few books available in English on the subject, this publication is a useful addition to the literature on this topic. Reproducing all the featured prints in colour, the images are supported by a range of scholarly essays. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

One of two books on this topic
This is one of two books written on this topic in English. The other is "Regency to Empire, French Printmaking 1715-1814" (1984). "Colorful Impressions..." (2004) is an excellent source book for eighteenth century prints and printmakers. Essays are: "Color Printing before 1730", "Marketing Colored Prints in Eighteenth Century France", "The Craft of Color Printing" and "A Collector's Perspective". Every outstanding reproduction is in color. Every major printmaker is represented~ Demarteau, Bonnet, Janinet, Descourtis and Debucourt~ as well as secondary printers.Many of these printmakers reproduced works by the leading French painters of the Eighteenth century~ Chardin, Boucher, Fragonard, Watteau. The layout of text with reproductions is stellar!The hardcover binding is firm. ... Read more

Product Description
This volume honors the achievements o Jack Lemon and the Landfall Press, celebrating their critical role in American art during the last quarter of a century.The catalog focuses on Lemon's keen eye and unshakable convictions, as the history of Landfall Press is also his history. ... Read more

Product Description
Great exhibition catalog featuring the work of American artist and printmaker, Werner Drewes. 30 black and white illustrations, 3 color illustrations of works by Drewes - landscapes, portraits, self-portrait, figures, abstract prints and other works. Woodcut, etching, drypoint, engraving. Includes exhibit checklist, interview with Drewes, Chronology / biography of the artist, publications, and several black and white photos of the artist.Softcover. 56 pages. Measures 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Interesting book / exhibition catalog, nicely illustrated. ... Read more