Books and Media

These versatile wooden blocks are great for building or making ABC blocks.

This informative program explores how singular artworks are created by combining printmaking, painting, and drawing.

It can be as simple as carving a potato or as complex as a chemical bath — but no matter the skill level, these printing techniques never require expensive equipment or a ton of space.

This volume follows printmaking through a 70 year period, from the latter part of the 19th century as the print, freed from its reproductive bonds, became a vehicle for pure artistic expression; through the great social and political traumas of the first half of the 20th century, when the print was co-opted to carry a political message; and concludes in the immediate postwar years with prints that signal the artists' search for meaning and an awareness of self.

In this useful volume that includes more than 150 color photographs, Richard Noyce explores innovative printmaking techniques, the persistence of traditional techniques and the directions they’re taking, and the challenges of technology and materials.

This informative program introduces basic relief printmaking techniques using simple materials and tools, including preparing a lino block, applying waterbased ink, and pulling the print using a press or the back of a spoon.

This DVD is filled with valuable, well-demonstrated information about safer printmaking methods for the beginning or advanced printmaker.

Perennially popular, printmaking is enjoying a contemporary resurgence — but no comprehensive up-to-date manual on the subject exists.