Modern printmaking : a guide to traditional and digital techniques / Sylvie Covey

By: Covey, Sylvie [author.].

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BookPublisher: Berkeley : Watson-Guptill, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First edition.Description: x, 309 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781607747598 (hardback); 1607747596 (hardback).Subject(s): Prints -- Technique

DDC classification: 760.28

Contents:

Relief printmaking. Relief printmaking background and basics ; Woodblock printing ; Linoleum block printing -- Intaglio printmaking. Intaglio printmaking background and basics ; Non-acid intaglio techniques ; Acid intaglio techniques ; Collography ; Photo-etching and photgravure ; Printing intaglio -- Lithography and serigraphy. Lithography ; Serigraphy -- Chine-Collé, mixed media, and new printmaking techniques. Chine-Collé ; Mixed media ; Digital transfers ; Post-digital graphics.

Summary: A fully illustrated instructional printmaking book presenting step-by-step examples alongside representative works from thirty top contemporary printmaking artists. Printmaking is flourishing in the digital age, appealing to both traditional artists as well as those interested in graphic design and digital technique. This all-in-one guide to printmaking technique is a complete technical and inspirational book on the history and contemporary processes for relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, mixed media/transfers, and post digital graphics, with extended profiles of a wide range of contemporary printmakers. Featuring instruction, interviews, example images, and philosophy, this beautiful book provides a truly modern look at printmaking today, in all its forms.-- Provided by publisher.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	760.28 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	12/02/2024	00230225

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A fully illustrated instructional printmaking book presenting step-by-step examples alongside representative works from thirty top contemporary printmaking artists.

Printmaking is flourishing in the modern era, appealing to both traditional artists as well as those interested in graphic design and digital techniques. This all-in-one guide is both technical and inspirational, examining the history and contemporary processes of relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, mixed media, digital transfers, and post-digital graphics. Featuring step-by-step examples alongside representative works and profiles of top printmaking artists, this colorful resource
provides a truly fresh look at printmaking today, in all its forms.

Includes bibliographical references and index

A fully illustrated instructional printmaking book presenting step-by-step examples alongside representative works from thirty top contemporary printmaking artists. Printmaking is flourishing in the digital age, appealing to both traditional artists as well as those interested in graphic design and digital technique. This all-in-one guide to printmaking technique is a complete technical and inspirational book on the history and contemporary processes for relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, mixed media/transfers, and post digital graphics, with extended profiles of a wide range of contemporary printmakers. Featuring instruction, interviews, example images, and philosophy, this beautiful book provides a truly modern look at printmaking today, in all its forms.-- Provided by publisher.

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Foreword To be an instructor at the Art Students League of New York is to hold a position of distinction among artists. The League's faculty is an elite group of professional artists who are all recognized in their fields. Each instructor has a unique voice that puts a signature to his or her work and ultimately identifies its creator. The mastery and knowledge they convey to their students come from a lifetime of dedication and exploration of their chosen mediums. It is that dedication, as well as their ability to teach the techniques and means to understand the language of art, that inspires the thousands of students who study at the League each year and the literally hundreds of thousands who have trained here for nearly a century and a half. Sylvie Covey exemplifies those qualities of professionalism, mastery, and dedication. An émigrée from Paris, where she studied at the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Ms. Covey came to the League to continue her studies, taking classes with master printmakers Michael Ponce de Leon and Seong Moy. She went on to study at Hunter College in New York, receiving an MFA in printmaking, drawing, and works on paper. Through this intensive study Ms. Covey became a master printmaker, not only mastering the traditional techniques of intaglio, lithography, and relief printmaking but also using that knowledge to establish her own voice within the contemporary oeuvre of digital printmaking and photo-etching as well as photolithography. Ms. Covey has proved to be as notable an instructor as she is an artist. Every year as part of the League's annual student concourse, her class exhibitions reveal the highly polished professionalism of her students, who have availed themselves of their instructor's rich and in-depth knowledge of the entire medium. Students at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Art Center of Northern New Jersey continue to benefit from Ms. Covey's expertise. As Executive Director of the Art Students League, I am very proud to call Sylvie Covey a League instructor. Along with the other members of the League's faculty, she is helping to pave the way for today's generation of artists to explore the potential of a traditional medium in ways that will allow them to speak eloquently and poetically in the future. Ms. Covey herself is a luminous example of that potential realized. Excerpted from Modern Printmaking: A Guide to Traditional and Digital Techniques by Sylvie Covey All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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Library Journal Review

With copious examples of finished pieces by numerous artists, and procedural discussions of several dozen processes, this book is both a technical guide and a source of inspiration. Sections address the main printmaking methods in use today: relief, intaglio, lithography, screen printing, mixed media, and what Covey (Photoshop for Artists) calls "post-digital" printmaking. The opening chapter briefly and entertainingly discusses the history of printmaking, while each section provides background on a given method and chapters on specific techniques. Woodcuts and linoleum prints, for example, are addressed in the relief section. Instruction on intaglio delves into acid techniques, including the spit bite aquatint. The "post-digital" chapter explains innovative techniques involving CNC machines. VERDICT Though this guide is best for advanced artists with prior printmaking experience, readers of all skill levels will enjoy the diversity of printmaking processes -represented here. © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

SYLVIE COVEY was born in France and studied graphic arts at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. She has taught digital and photo techniques in printmaking at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York since 2001 and has been an instructor at the Art Students League of New York since 1995. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, and North and South America and has been acquired by major museums and institutions. She lives in New York City.