Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memorial service for the late Lucien Price '07 will be held today at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church. Participating will be William Alfred, professor of English, and David L. Stone '61, former president of the Signet Society, along with the University Choir...
...medieval alchemist's sign for stone. Today it is the trademark, or "chop," as printmakers call it, of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, a modern, scientific, and rather messianic attempt to revive the making of graphic art from stone. As the Los Angeles-based, nonprofit workshop prepared to print its chop last week on the 1,000th litho created there since its beginning four years ago, it seemed to mark the rebirth of an art form lately thought inferior to painting because of its duplication by mechanical means...
Pressure Cooker. True enough, a lithography studio like Tamarind does resemble an industrial plant-it is full of polished stones, pots of ink, presses, reams of handmade paper. The artist's task, in the simplest form of lithography, is to draw his work on flat stone with a greasy crayon. A printer-artisan wets the stone with water, which the grease rejects, and then rolls on ink, which the grease accepts. When the artisan presses paper to the stone, the ink prints the work of art, and the process can be repeated as many times as the artist requires...
...nature, lithography is more direct and spontaneous than other graphic arts. No chiseling, carving or etching is required: the artist just draws on the stone. Wide ranges of effects are possible: both June Wayne's Dorothy the Last Day, an impression of her mother just before she died, and Sam Francis' untitled abstraction use four colors apiece. Lithography bears up under both subtle gradations and flamboyant freedoms of color, fluidity of materials and spontaneity. When desired, reproductions from the stone can artfully simulate many of the effects of painting...
...sold to collectors for the benefit of Tamarind; three are kept for historical, teaching and loan purposes. The artist, with his artisan, supervises each reproduction. Each of the artist's prints bears, in his own handwriting, the notation 1/20, 2/20, etc. After the scheduled number is completed, the stone is "regrained" (erased), and a cancellation proof is made to certify the end of the edition...