Download or read book Interpretive Wood engraving written by William H. Brandt and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, wood-engraving was the principle medium of illustration employed by publishers. From this beginning, print collector Bill Brandt goes on to recount the story of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. He reveals the medium's intricacies, the controversies sparked between traditional wood-engravers and America's New School, and the international acclaim rightly bestowed on these innovative American artists. The lost art of interpretive wood-engraving comes to life in Brandt's detailed account. Using tools the size of dental instruments, the movements talented and resourceful men and women engraved award-winning works of art - both interpretations of famous masterpieces and striking original works. The fifty prints reproduced on these pages, scanned from Brandt's extensive collection with most produced at full size, highlight the astonishing skill and painstaking craftsmanship required of a wood-engraving artist of the golden age. The author profiles many leading personalities on the American wood-engraving scene, including Alexander Anderson, William J. Linton, Anna Botsford Comstock, General Rush C. Hawkins, Timothy Cole, and Elbridge Kingsley, whose revolutionary direct-from-nature wood-engravings were created in rural New England from his horse-drawn sketching car. Includes over eighty illustrations.Brandt tells how the Society of American Wood-Engravers burned brightly for almost twenty years, and then faded away in the early days of photoreproductions. Readers, glimpsing the warm glow of a remarkable era, will take pride in this little-known period of American art history.
Download or read book Interpretative Wood engraving written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Wood engraving written by George Edward Woodberry and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Wood Engraving written by Society of American Wood Engravers and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hand book of Wood Engraving with Practical Instruction in the Art for Persons Wishing to Learn Without an Instructor written by William Andrew Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wood Engraving written by Barry Moser and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " From the artist whom Nicholas Basbanes calls "the most important book illustrator working in America today" comes a primer on the art of wood engraving, a pursuit which one can "learn" in less than an hour but which one can master only through years of persistence, dedication, and indefatigable energy. Learning to engrave a block, says Barry Moser, is like learning to play the piano: it is all practice, practice, practice, all teaching the muscles how to perform the basics. At first your every gesture will be halting, labored, and self-conscious; then at last will come the moment when, like Ashkenazy at the keyboard, you can forget about "process," about "technique," and focus all your mental energy on making art. "There are no shortcuts," warns Moser. "Mastery comes only with time, work, and repetition. A great number of bad wood engravings must be made before one can expect to make a good one. Once your muscles know how to do their work, once they know how to carve thin white lines into boxwood, your mind will be free to invent." There is a lifetime of knowledge in this book: how to prepare a printing block; how to think in the medium's properties of line, shape, and ink; how to transfer a drawing onto a block. There is advice, too, on tools: not only on gravers (burins, scorpers, stipplers, and spitzstickers) but also on lights (you'll need a good strong one) and engraving bags (the leather pillows that cradle the blocks as you carve). Here is how to ink, how to choose paper, and how to print. Here is how to fail, how to move on, and how to acquire the habit of work that leads to real achievement. Wood Engraving is an art lesson and a life lesson. And because it's a book by Barry Moser, it is also a gallery of prints and beautiful to behold."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book A Treatise on Wood Engravings Historical and Practical written by Henry G. Bohn and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book The History of Wood engraving in America written by William James Linton and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Bewick Succeeded written by Jacob Kainen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following book goes into depth about Thomas Bewick's career as a wood-engraver. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating children's books. He gradually turned to illustrating, writing and publishing his own books, gaining an adult audience for the fine illustrations in A History of Quadrupeds. His career began when he was apprenticed to engraver Ralph Beilby in Newcastle upon Tyne. He became a partner in the business and eventually took it over. Apprentices whom Bewick trained include John Anderson, Luke Clennell, and William Harvey, who in their turn became well known as painters and engravers. Bewick is best known for his A History of British Birds, which is admired today mainly for its wood engravings, especially the small, sharply observed, and often humorous vignettes known as tail-pieces. The book was the forerunner of all modern field guides. He notably illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables throughout his life.
Download or read book Wood engraving written by Andrew Varick Stout Anthony and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wood Engraving written by Simon Brett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and practical wood engraving manual. Wood Engraving is an easily-followed, practical manual on wood engraving for beginners. Learn the processes of printing and engraving through clear explanations and use the lists of material requirements to help you get started. In this third, revised edition, discover up-to-date technique variations and all the tips and methods that the author has found helpful in 50 years as a practitioner. Since, or so he says, how to do it cannot be separated from why you are doing it and what it is you think you are doing, the book also touches on the relation of wood engraving to art more generally, and is a companion not only to beginning but also to continuing in this historic art. A beautiful object in its own right and written by a master in the field, this book is a must have if you treasure fine wood engraving and the contribution Simon Brett has made to it.
Download or read book A Treatise on Wood Engraving Historical and Practical written by William Andrew Chatto and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wood Engraving written by Simon Brett and published by . This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Wood Engraving written by Thomas Gilks and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wood engraving written by William James Linton and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treatise on Wood Engravings written by William Andrew Chatto and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Wood Engravings: Historical and Practical I feel it my duty to submit to the public a few remarks, introductory to the Preface, which bears the signature of Mr. Chatto. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of Wood Engraving written by Woodberry George Edward and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
