Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blaustein and Ben Shahn are among the 42 printmakers. Many of them started in other mediums, only to find new planes of expression through the tools and inks of printmaking. Leonard Baskin, 42, turned to it around 1949: "I was trying to do in sculpture what was essentially graphic, things too complex in terms of their ideas. I started with wood cuts, then turned to etching and discovered new areas of possibility." He sports a "living etching" on his right forearm-a work executed by a Halifax tattooist from a Baskin design of intertwined snakes. Baskin used a 17th century...
Elastic Medium. Argentine-born Mauricio Lasansky, 48, who has created a U.S. printmaking capital at the department of graphic arts of the State University of Iowa, often combines acid etching, drypoint and engraving in a single work to express the somber subjects that are his specialty. Says Lasansky: "The print is a medium which you can fight your way through. It is very elastic; that is why I like it. It leaves quite a lot of room for improvisation. I use practically every technique of the last 400 years, plus a couple we are developing here in Iowa...
...sledded the oaks from the woodlot and put them down near the mill." A student of Early American craftsmanship and the author of volumes like The Seasons of America Past and American Barns and Covered Bridges. Sloane took the diary and dressed it out with verbal and graphic sketches, detailing the construction of a whole backwoods farm. Mere antiquity is not what interests him. Instead, he puts a shine and an edge on the tools of the pioneers, constantly admiring the care and skill of craftsmen who thought enough of themselves, their work, and the times they lived...
...they worked at Atelier 17, a studio that opened in 1927 at 17 rue Campagne-Premiere in Paris. Masters though they were, they had things to learn from the Englishman who founded Atelier 17 and still presides over it at another address: Stanley William Hayter. superb technician of the graphic arts and greatest innovator of modern etching. Last week in Manhattan, the AAA Gallery was showing Atelier 17 prints by Hayter and other artists, and a retrospective show of Atelier 17 work was touring the U.S. under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts...
...FAUVES, by Jean-Paul Crespelle (365 pp.; New York Graphic Society; $25). The 100 color plates in this superb collection are by far the best reproductions offered this year, and it is fitting that they should be, since shocking, vibrant use of color was what earned the school of Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts) its name. The painters are Matisse, Rouault, Derain, Braque, Dufy...