Thirty-five years at Crown Point Press : making prints, doing art / Karin Breuer, Ruth E. Fine, Steven A. Nash.

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Thirty-five years at Crown Point Press : making prints, doing art / Karin Breuer, Ruth E. Fine, Steven A. Nash.

Entry/Object ID

2009.17.4

Description

xi, 203 pages : illus. (some color) ; Includes bibliographical references and index. Crown Point Press, under the direction of Kathan Brown, is renowned for its use of the oldest, most traditional printmaking processes, etching and woodcut, in radically nontraditional ways. With painters, sculptors, and performance and conceptual artists - many of whom had never before made prints - the Press has produced works as varied as Tom Marioni's tracing of the sun's reflection on a copper plate and figurative images carved on woodblocks by traditional printmaking masters in Japan and China. During the past thirty-five years, Crown Point Press printed and published important Minimalist and Conceptual graphics as well as the significant prints of Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 1991 brought the Archive of this great fine art publisher into its collection. Over 200 of these prints are illustrated in color in this book, which offers insight into the creative processes of the artists and candidly describes the development of the Press and the ways it helped transform the printmaking landscape of the twentieth century.

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Lexicon

Search Terms

Prints, American, Prints, Washington, San Francisco, Prints., Prints, American., Grafische kunst., Gravure, Exhibitions., Expositions, Catalogues d'exposition., 20th century, 1997., 1997-1998., 20e siècle, Print making

Dimensions

Height

31 cm

Book Details

Author

Karin Breuer

Publisher

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ;, University of California Press,

Place Published

City

Berkeley, San Francisco

State/Province

California

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Region

Bay Area

Date Published

1997

Printer

C&C Offset Printing Co.

Place Printed

State/Province

Hong Kong

Binding

Binding Type

Perfect bound

Notes

648-Added Entry Chron. Term: 1900-1999

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Crown Point Press

Person or Organization

Ruth E. Fine

Notes

Jt. author

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National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Person or Organization

Steven A. Nash

Notes

Jt. author

Person or Organization

John Cage

Person or Organization

Chuck Close

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Francesco Clemente

Person or Organization

Richard Diebenkorn

Person or Organization

Helen Frankenthaler

Person or Organization

Hans Haacke

Person or Organization

Anish Kapoor

Person or Organization

Elaine de Kooning

Person or Organization

Sol LeWitt

Person or Organization

Claes Oldenburg

Person or Organization

Edward Ruscha