Silk screen color printing, presenting a new addition to the graphic arts-serigraphy

McGraw-Hill Book Company

1942

xvii, 78 p., 1 l. incl. col. mounted front.

Contents: Discussion on the approach to the print ; Making the silk screen printing frame ; Making a print ; Additional information on the care and use of the silk screen equipment ; Additional silk screen processes

This book, in large part, deals with one method, tusche, because it is the most suitable in flexibility, freedom, directness for the production of color prints, and because it is the method most widely used by practicing serigraphers. I have, however, outlined the other techniques, such as pro-film and glue out, toward the end of this book, and I wish to emphasize that each of these techniques (or any combination of them) offers full aesthetic possibilities... Plastically and aesthetically, serigraphy offers a new and stimulating range of opportunity. The silk screen print has its own distinctive and original qualities. The flexibility of creating the stencils, the variations from delicate transparency to thickly pigmented opacity, and the textural possibilities offer opportunities for rich artistic manipulation of this medium. When the artist s gives the screen as much technical concern as has been given to the plate in etching, and the stone in lithography, and begins to use serigraphy as a medium for artistic expression, prints of equal merit with those produced in other mediums will be produced serigraphy.

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