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Surfaces can reveal the infinite. This book is based on the fact that one learns best by doing. The authors, both highly respected in the printmaking profession, present clearly and directly all the basic approaches to the screenprint and the lithograph.

Step by step photographs and diagrams take you into the studios of today's eminent graphic artists and literally let you watch over their shoulders as they work.

How do you stretch silk for a silkscreen print? Where can you find a piece of finely grained zinc for a lithograph? What new photographic techniques have been developed in the last half dozen years?

Solutions to all the practical questions involved in the fieldare finely illustrated, both by the text and reproductions of over 40 masterprints.