Word: intaglio
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...during the '20s. All clues finally lead to Valletta, where V., disguised as the Bad Priest, is injured in a World War II air raid and is disassembled by a band of children: her glass eye is stolen; her false feet of amber and gold, with veins in intaglio are removed; a sapphire is dug from her navel...
...print is apt to be a group effort: one man does the drawing, another makes the pigments, still another does the engraving. At Iowa, the student does everything. Lasansky prefers etching and engraving on copperplate to lithography because the discipline is more rigid. His technique, which he calls intaglio, is really a combination of many methods-engraving, etching with acid, gouging, graining with sand. "We have a new breed," says he of his students, "the completely trained printmaker...
Haunted they come, their balefully intaglio psyches...
Last week, proudly sporting Freud's jewel-an amber-colored intaglio of the head of Socrates mounted on a gold ring -Dr. Jones was still busy in the master's cause. At the congress of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, which brought 575 analysts to London, his formal contribution was a paper on Freud's early travels. More importantly, perhaps, he served as a kind of monument to psychoanalysis...
...history of lithography, as in that of engraving and woodcut, a curious legendary role belongs to laundry. Plate engraving is supposed to have been discovered when someone threw a heap of wet linen over a steel cuirass, later found it patterned from the intaglio work on the steel. Albrecht Dürer was reputedly driven to the solace of wood blocks by his wife's demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful...