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Prints: Art And Techniques by Susan Lambert
Prints: Art and Techniques, by Susan Lambert. Victoria & Albert Museum, 2001.
This book is a fairly quick overview of printmaking techniques, beautifully illustrated with examples taken from the collection of the Victoria and Albert museum. If you always wondered exactly what the difference between an engraving and an etching is, or how lithography is done as an artistic process rather than a photomechanical process as is more familiar to most of us, this is a great book. The scope is broad and the detail shallow, giving for each process a bit of history, a brief sketch of the artistic and printing techniques, and a description of the characteristics of the print, illustrated with an example from the V&A collection and often a magnified portion of the example. There is an annotated list of recommended further reading at the end of the book for those who want to learn more.
As someone somewhat curious and not very knowledgeable about printmaking, I found it a very nice overview.
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