Mezzotints

Mezzotints
Author: Cyril Davenport
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1904
Genre: Engraving
ISBN:

Mezzotint

Mezzotint
Author: Carol Wax
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-03-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810926493

Traces the evolution of the mezzotint from its invention in the 17th century to its great growth in the 18th century. An extensive technical section includes step-by-step descriptions and illustrations of the procedures for making mezzotints.

The Printed Picture

The Printed Picture
Author: Richard Benson
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780870707216

Relief printing : woodcut, metal type, and wood engraving -- Intaglio and planographic printing : engraving, etching, mezzotint, and lithography -- Color printing : hand coloring and multiple-impression color -- Bits and pieces : modern art prints, oddities, and photographic precursors -- Early photography in silver : daguerreotypes, early silver paper processes and tintypes -- Non-silver processes : carbon, blueprint, platinum, and a couple of others -- Modern photography : developing-out gelatin silver printing -- Color notes : primary colors and neutrality -- Color photography : separation-based processes and chromogenic prints -- Photography in ink : relief and intaglio printing : the letterpress halftone and gravure printing -- Photography in ink : planographic printing : collotype and photo offset lithography -- Digital processes : binary issues, inkjet, dye sublimation, and digital C-prints -- Where do we go from here? : some questions about the future