Monotype: Mediums and Methods for Painterly Printmaking.(Book Review)

From: Arts & Activities | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Hausman, Jerome J. | Copyright information

(2001; $19.95, paper), by Julia Ayers. Watson-Guptill Publications, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.

Children are often seen putting print or ink or even mud on their hands and then proceeding to place their hands on another surface: paper, cardboard or a plaster wall. This can be said to be an early stage in printing. Of course, artists can be seen to have gone much further in extending this idea of image-making. Monotypes are the result of a process in which an artist...

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