For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students - Softcover

Cathie Ruggie Saunders; Martha Chiplis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350051284 ISBN 13: 9781350051287

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

Synopsis

Conveying the authors love of the letterpress process and product, this book presents the technical, historical, aesthetic and practical information necessary for both students and instructors. The 2nd edition of For the Love of Letterpress includes an updated gallery of contemporary images of letterpress printing, as well as a new chapter of letterpress assignments from the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Both additions attest to the dynamic and continued relevance of the media. The authors show how contemporary digital processes have expanded the boundaries of traditional letterpress. By writing with passion and experience, they indicate why a 15th century printing technology based upon crafting with ones hands, still has appeal and value to 21st century artists and designers. Whether incorporated into an academic curriculum or used for self-study, For the Love of Letterpress is a must for students who wish to learn letterpress and instructors seeking inspiration and reference.

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Review:

[For the previous edition] This book is unique because it provides instruction on practical printing techniques as well as on the art of printing as a method of expression in itself rather than a simple means to an end. Strip away the creative process and even the savviest print technician cannot create a truly successful work. Learning the how is fundamental, but so is learning the why. For those interested in understanding the whole mind-body process and experience of letterpress printing as a fine art form, this book delivers. --Camden M. Richards in The Quarterly News-Letter of the Book Club of California, Summer 2014

[For the previous edition] Chapters on technical aspects of presses, printing, good studio practice, relief matrices, and (please note) contemporary processes, are written in accessible language with useful information and tips that can only be gained from experienced practitioners. Enhanced by a fascinating array of images of prints, ephemera and artists books by letterpress and book arts practitioners around the globe. --Angie Butler, Book Artist, UK, in Printmaking Today, Fall 2014

[For the previous edition] With its many photographs and stories of completed works, and its instruction directed at both students and teachers, For the Love of Letterpress is a book printers will refer to over and over as they add skills and develop their printing voice and style. --Sara T. Sauers, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa Center for the Book, in Printeresting

About the Author:

Cathie Ruggie Saunders teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1350051284
• ISBN 13: 9781350051287
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208