It is an example of the kind of mind-boggling research that occasionally happens in the field of prints (one thinks of Bartsch or Hollstein)-research that transforms the field and opens new horizons for future scholars. XLV/2, 2014Īdemas de la introducción y tres extensos capítulos, en sus apéndices muestra una completa cronología del grabado en hueco desde 1435 hasta 2002, un extenso listado de términos e inscripciones y una bibliografía completa de manuales, desde Bosse a Hayter, y artículos científicos relativos. This work is not only an engaging descriptive study of intaglio processes over the last six hundred years but also a particularly useful reference work that can serve well as a starting point for future research. Stijnman brings the reader into the printmaker's workshop and describes in detail the production of prints from start to finish. It has been an impressive undertaking by Ad Stijnman, who has produced an edition so very dense in terms of information and yet so utterly engaging.Īd Stijnman's richly illustrated and in-depth study of the history of the techniques of engraving and etching focuses on the development of the intaglio processes, while at the same time throwing light on things that had a direct influence on this development: for example, materials, style, fashion, commercial considerations, and technical innovation. The edition is beautifully illustrated throughout with examples of intaglio prints ranging through the six centuries studied. Ad Stijnman knows his stuff and understands the art of intaglio printmaking first hand. How immensely refreshing to find a respected printmaking scholar and academic who is also a practicing printmaker.
#Intaglio printmaker manual#
It is the most exhaustive account of the process and the people involved at the practical level in manual intaglio printing. This study by Stijnman is an immensely scholarly and interpretative reference work.
#Intaglio printmaker manuals#
List of authorised contents and functions in addressesĪppendix 4: Bibliography of practical manualsĪppendix 5: Indices to the bibliography of practical manuals Check out their reading list of books on the techniques of printmaking and drawing.Īntecedents, early developments and disseminationĭissemination of intaglio printmaking techniquesĭissemination within Europe, and to Asia, Australia and the AmericasĪppendix 1: General chronology of intaglio printmaking processes This book is the top recommendation of reference works by the British Museum's Prints and Drawings Department. Based on an exhaustive number of primary sources it will be an essential resource for collectors, curators, conservators, printmakers and students of technical art history. This comprehensively illustrated study is the first of its kind to cover all elements of the trade of engraving and etching throughout six centuries. Consequently artist-etchers withdrew to an elite position to concentrate on the manual aspects of printmaking, which is the situation today. The handcrafted print made way for the large-scale mechanised graphic industry which emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century. After the abolition of the guilds on the European continent around 1800, and the introduction of photography and the expansion of the graphic industry, the engraving of images became a mere mechanical procedure.
#Intaglio printmaker series#
Further developments in plate-making resulted from a series of inventions and reinventions. By 1525 intaglio printmaking techniques could be said to have reached maturity and spread east and west following the European trade routes and colonisation. The author shows how intaglio printmaking developed steadily from the mid-fifteenth century, with the invention of the roller press and the etching of printing plates. Economic, educational and social aspects are discussed, as well as the dissemination of the trade of intaglio printmaking. These developments are observed in the light of the coherence between the technique of the intaglio print (such as its materials and methods of production) the ‘style’ or outward appearance of the print the creator of the print and the fashion typical of a particular social group, place and time. This book, published by Archetype Publications in association with HES & DE GRAAF Publishers, surveys the history of the techniques of engraving, etching and plate printing - ie that of manual intaglio printmaking processes - from its beginning in the 1430s until today.
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