A must-have for anyone interested in the art of printmaking, Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood presents the greatest prints to emerge from Crown Point Press, one of the top fine-art presses in the country. Author Kathan Brown, an internationally respected authority on prints, has hosted such world-renowned artists as Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, John Cage, Pat Steir, and Chuck Close at the press she founded -- with amazing results. The fruit of their creative experimentation is clearly visible in Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood. Vibrant with color and image on virtually every page, this handsome volume includes unusually clear explanations of fine-art printmaking techniques and entertaining stories about the artists and their working habits. An engaging consideration of the creative process, Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood is also a comprehensive resource for artists in every medium and an essential work for novice and experienced collectors.

Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood: Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press

Arts & Photography

Brown, Kathan

Graphic Design

Chronicle Books LLC.

Why Draw a Live Model?

Crown Point Press

This handbook discusses various printmaking techniques and how to distinguish between them. Some techniques included are etching, woodcut, silkscreen, lithography and ink jet. With black and white illustrations. The handbook is an abbreviated version of the technical portion of ink, paper, metal, wood: Painters & Sculptors at Crown Point Press, published by Chronicle Books. This title is out of print and can be ordered directly from Crown Point.

Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood: How to Recognize Contemporary Artists' Prints

Crown Point Pr

Art. Music. Cultural Writing. JOHN CAGE VISUAL ART is an exquisite book which includes 116 color images. It is presented in three parts. The first is a text wrtten from Kathan Brown's own experience. In it, she often uses Cage's words to describe particular works, and she reflects upon how the art can be used in the world. The second part is a detailed section that illustrates scores that Cage created for his printers, and explains his use of what he called chance operations in making his work. The third section is pictorial, including reproductions of Cage's prints, watercolors and drawings. John Cage told Brown that the purpose of art is to sober and quiet the mind, so that it is in accord with what happens.

John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind

Cultural Writing. Travel. THE NORTH POLE is a compelling account of a summer trip the author made to the North Pole on a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker. Brown intersperses her narrative with excerpts from the journal of Fritdjof Nansen, who explored the area a hundred years ago, and with conversations with travelers, scientists, and a polar archivist about ideas concerning the Arctic that affect the world today, including the issue of global warming. In the chapter called "The Weather," Brown delivers a clear, accessible, scientifically accurate description of the complex phenomena that cause climate change. Lushly produced, with a foldout map and 120 full-color photographs.

The North Pole

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Art. Kathan Brown's memoir, KNOW THAT YOU ARE LUCKY, is full of stories about art and artists, but it is also an engaging narrative about an adventurous approach to running a small business in the varying economic times of the past half-century. The narrative in KNOW THAT YOU ARE LUCKY moves quickly, and in the end the author follows the advice of Sol Le Witt (used as one of its chapter titles): "Leap to Conclusions that Logic Cannot Reach."

Know That You Are Lucky

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Cultural Writing. Art. Essays. MAGICAL SECRETS ABOUT THINKING CREATIVELY: THE ART OF ETCHING AND THE TRUTH OF LIFE by Kathan Brown is a new volume in the Magical Secrets series published by Crown Point Press in San Francisco. What are Magical Secrets? They are ways of setting yourself up for thinking creatively, for a sudden understanding, something like a miracle. Kathan Brown learned the Magical Secrets in this book by helping artists of extraordinary acclaim make etchings. She founded Crown Point Press, now probably the world's most influential etching publisher, in 1962. In this book, you'll meet sixteen artists who will be remembered by future generations. Kathan Brown knows them well, and with pictures and graceful, inviting prose she shares with you their ways of working, thinking, and being.

Magical Secrets About Thinking Creatively: The Art of Etching and the Truth of Life

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