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Introducing a brand new large format Leporello from American artist Dustin Harbin. Can you name 101 dinosaurs off the top of your head? Do you know which of them came first? Which was the first to go? Who was the tallest? How about the longest? The smallest? Fastest? Prettiest? Sleepiest? Dustin Harbin revisits some of the most awe-inspiring dinos to roam the earth in the Leporello format, a simple but beautifully illustrated infographic book that unravels 6.5 feet long.

Despite his status as a major Dutch artist of the sixteenth century, Cornelis Anthonisz (c. 1505-1553) has never been the object of any rigorous examination. This book is the first comprehensive study of Cornelis's moralizing prints--an important portion of his oeuvre and one unmatched by any of his predecessors. Organized thematically, the discussion proceeds from the essentially secular to more overtly sacred subjects. The author also considers Cornelis's prints in terms of their significant p...

More than a generation before the invention of Gutenberg’s celebrated press, the new technology of image printing emerged. In this book, a distinguished group of scholars treats the earliest manifestations of printing in all aspects: technical experimentation, the complex relation of printed books to printed images, individual and institutional patronage, new iconographies, religious propaganda, and the wide variety of private and public ways in which printed images were first employed.   The...

Ariadne Florentina has Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin. He was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel gui...

The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver, Iain McNab, in 1925. Situated in London’s Pimlico district the school played a key role in the story of modern British printmaking between the wars. The Grosvenor School artists received critical acclaim in their time that continued until the late 1930s under the influence of Claude Flight who pioneered a revolutionary method of making the simple linocut to dynamic and colourful effect. Cyril Po...

Waves of renewal traces the history of Japanese printmaking following an era of decline beginning in the late nineteenth century. The early twentieth century witnessed the emergence of two principal printmaking movements. The first—shin hanga (new print)—reinvented and revitalised the conventional genres of landscape, beauties and actors. The second—sōsaku hanga (creative print)—was inspired by the dialogue between Western and Japanese art and aesthetics. Waves of renewal is the most comprehen...

Etching today is regarded as the old man of printmaking, its roots lying with alchemists and armourers. It has slowly evolved over the centuries, taking and incorporating new developments such as photography in its stride. Topics include: · The basics of etching – the materials required; how to prepare a plate; ways of making marks using hard ground, soft ground an aquatint · Other etching techniques – including spit-bite and sugar lift and how to transfer images onto the plate using photo etchi...