British Printmaker 1855 1955

by Windsor, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780754602316
• ISBN10: 0754602311
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd

Summary

This fascinating volume examines the developments in British printmaking which started in the middle of the 19th century with the Etching Revival and continued into the middle of the 20th century with the experimental work carried out at Corsham and St Ives in the 1950s.

The emphasis of the accompanying essays is on the development of printmaking techniques through the century, and the ways in which new methods enabled artists to develop their ideas and means of expression.

An A-Z of artists includes biographies and reference material for over 400 key printmakers, all of whom are represented by at least one illustration. This book is an essential, magnificently illustrated and readable work of reference for collectors and all those with a love of prints.

Table of Contents

Photographic credit	vi
Acknowledgements	vii
Abbreviations	viii
Introduction	ix
Artists' Biographies	1	(80)
Wood Engraving	81	(44)
Rodney Engen
Etching 1855-1935	125	(62)
Robin Garton
Kenneth Guichard
Lithography from c1875 to the 1920s	187	(30)
Prof Kemille Moore
The Colour Woodcut	217	(20)
Alan Guest
The Linocut	237	(17)
Alan Guest
Modern Lithography: the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s	254	(19)
Robin Garton
The Poster-print	273	(14)
Paul Rennie
The Monotype	287	(18)
Gordon Samuel
St Ives and Corsham	305	(9)
David Archer
Appendices
I Senefelder Club 1908-1934	314	(2)
II World War I Efforts and Ideals 1918	316	(1)
III Printmakers who also exhibited at the International Surrealist Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, 1936	317	(1)
IV Contemporary Lithographs 1937-8*	317	(1)
V Artists' International Association (AIA): Everyman Prints 1940	318	(1)
VI A Salvo for Russia - Surrealist Prints 1942	319	(1)
VII World War II	319	(1)
Published lithographs, Gabain and Hartrick, 1940
Submarine series, Eric Ravilious, 1941
Ministry of Information - Curwen
Ministry of Information - Baynard*
Gabain unpublished set, 1945
Council for Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA)*
VIII School Prints 1946-51*	320	(1)
IX Lyons Prints 1947-55*	321	(1)
X The London Society of Painter-Printers	321	(1)
XI Festival of Britain Prints 1951*	323	(1)
XII Coronation Series 1953	323	(1)
XIII Exhibition of Corsham Lithographs at Dartington Hall 1955	324	(1)
XIV Guinness Prints 1956-c1957*	325