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Title: Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art by Karin Breuer, Ruth E. Fine, Steven A. Nash, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Ruth Fine, National Gallery of Art ISBN: 0-520-21061-1 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Record of Achievement
Comment: Crown Point Press is one of the leading American printer/publishers of original fine prints, emphasizing intaglio (etching) techniques (although at various periods it has also sponsored woodblock projects). This book is a celebration of 35 years (as of 1997) of printing at Crown Point, and consists of three essays, plus the catalogue of the exhibition that followed the acquisition of the Crown Point archive by the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco.
The first essay is a history of Crown Point Press, and particularly of the unique vision and direction given to the Press by its founder and first printer, Kathan Brown. Although occasionally tedious (as when it lapses into lists of the artists who worked at the Press during a particular period), this essay provides interesting discussions of Brown's evolving philosophy, her interactions with artists belonging to various art movements, the different goals of the artists, and so on. You also get a small glipse into the economics of print publishing.
The second and third essays were what I found most interesting. Karin Breuer shows how the working proofs contained in the Press's archive document the artist at work, and the very different working methods that can be effective for different artists. Steven Nash discusses the interrelationships between an artist's work in printmaking and his or her work in other media.
Two-thirds of the book is the exhibition catalogue, which shows the truly amazing breadth and quality of the work done at Crown Point over the years. Although Brown has had a particular affinity for Minimalist and Conceptual art, she has invited interesting artists across a wide spectrum of "isms" to work at the Press, and the list of participating artists reads like a "who's who" of American art in the second half of the 20th Century. Particularly significant artists at Crown Point have included Richard Diebenkorn, John Cage, Wayne Thiebaud and Sol LeWitt, all of whom are well represented in the catalogue.
This is certainly not a "how to" book, and it is probably still too soon to be able to look back and really say "yes, this artist or movement was significant," or "this Press made a difference in American art," or even "this is the lasting contribution made by the post-WWII resurgence in printmaking." This book provides an important record, however, of 35 years at one of the most important American printer/publishers, and as such makes it easier to think about these questions and begin to glimpse answers.
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Title: The Contemporary Print: From Pre-Pop to Postmodern by Susan Tallman, W W Norton & Co Thames & Hudson ISBN: 0500236844 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Relief Printmaking by Ann Westley ISBN: 0823045242 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Kiki Smith: Prints, Books and Things by Kiki Smith, Wendy Weitman ISBN: 0870705830 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax by Joanne Mattera ISBN: 0823002837 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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