#great prints of the world

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 203

Great Prints of the World

Gabor Peterdi

Macmillan Company 1969

This is one of those books that I don’t understand why I have it until I open it up. The image reproductions are simply superb. With examples from most every significant printmaker from Antonio Pollaiuolo (1429-98) through Picasso, it’s a wonderful overview. The only real problem with it is that it’s almost entirely in black-and-white.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldPenguinDay 🐧:

Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth (Austrian, 1891-1978) Penguins, n.d. colored linocut, 23.4 x 17.5 cm

[moregraceful]

It feels like getting pulled underwater—the sharp sideways tug, the slight drag of resistance, then falling, falling, till the waves close over his head. But Logan can breathe when he rights himself again, even if the light has a watery filter to it and the voices have a distant echo. // Sometimes Logan gets a glimpse of guys who've been long gone from the teal, clustered at the far end of the bench or sitting in the box across the ice. He heard Jason's voice in the hallway loud and clear, that infectious laugh. And he could have sworn he saw Raffi fucking Torres getting out of a car in the players' lot. Something tells him not to look up the rosters.

Commissioned @impmakesart to make a painting based on the Sharks' Cali Fin hype reel + the flip side by frausorge. Imp was amazing to work with and I could not be more emotional about this piece and so, so pleased with how it turned out!! 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️ Commission him here. Thank you Imp!

[uwmspeccoll]

A Gone World Feathursday

Yesterday, we featured some woodcuts by the New Jersey-based artist Michael Dal Cerro (b. 1953) from his recently-donated 1992 artists book Small World Alphabet published in Seattle by Grey Spider Press in a limited edition of 75 copies. The book is an abecedarium highlighting the outsized impact our species has had on our planet's environment. Today we show all the woodcut birds presented in his book, and of course the unifying factor between these specific species is that they have all gone extinct through human intervention:

Dodo (Raphus cucullatus): a large flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, part of a clade of extinct flightless birds that were members of the family which includes pigeons and doves. This docile bird that had never known predators was hunted to extinction by the late 17th century.

Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis): a large sea-going flightless bird of the family Alcidae that became extinct by the mid-19th century due to overhunting, particularly for its valuable down feathers used in pillows.

Heath Hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido): an extinct subspecies of the Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido), a large North American bird in the grouse family. Once extremely common, it became extinct in 1932, due to centuries of overhunting, predation by feral cats, and poaching.

Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius): a migratory species of North American pigeon, once the most abundant bird on the continent, that was hunted to extinction by 1914.

View other posts on extinct birds.

View more Feathursday posts.

[von-eldritch]

The preacher's son, he taught me how to come Right down to the beach where we can have fun

[britneyshakespeare]

He's a 10 but he doesn't foam at the mouth when reading alliterative Old and Middle English literature

[muspeccoll]

#WordyWednesday

Lithography: An illustration process invented in 1798 by Alois Senefelder that is neither intaglio nor relief. Lithography involves writing on a flat surface with a grease-crayon and then applying an acid solution to slightly etch the non-drawn surfaces. The entire surface is then covered in water, which does not lie on the greasy marks (as water and grease repel one another). A greasy printing ink is then applied, which only settles on the greasy drawing, and can then be printed. Lithography can be done using special limestones or using metal plates. It allows color printing in a way that previous illustration techniques did not and is still practiced by artists today.

Image: Coffin, Haskell, 1878-1941. Joan of Arc saved France: women of America save your country. New York: United States Printing & Lithographic Co., 1918?. D522.25 .C64 1918. Digitally available at the MU Digital Library.

(via Jobbing — Lithography · Rare Books: A Glossary · Special Collections and Archives)

[beepbeepsan]

If QR code menus have no haters, I'm dead

[arolesbianism]

Thinking abt my dupe ocs again... Maybe Quinn does have hashtag issues actually

[the-insanity-of-mojiru]

Had to make a separate post of this art by @nicequalitymemoon because I love it so much!!! Aaaa look at the boys, they're so cute, they're so round, they're so perfect!!! Aaaaaaa everyone please look at this, please go look at memoon's art it's all cute like this aaaaaaaa-

[onecreativepup]

The world can be a little scary sometimes. Stay safe out there!

[gothamcityneedsme]

i find it funny but a lot of the webcomics i consider like "my classics" werent too widely read

[lexreadsdiversely]

It's so frustrating how poorly the covers for the great cities duology are made, though, at least for the paperbacks. The cover for The City We Became started to crease on the front near the spine when I was only like 10% through it and just got worse, no matter how gentle I tried to be. It looks cool, fits the vibe of the cover art, but I have no hope that the cover isn't going to tear off after a few reads.

I'm only 25 pages into The World We Make. The pages are so condensed in this smaller copy that just to be able to read every line you gotta practically pry the book apart, which is already breaking the spine. I'm personally a big fan of books that are so well-loved that they're beat up and falling apart, but not 25 pages into the first read. These just weren't thought through enough.

As a diehard paperback lover, it truly pains me to say that if you're going to read these books in physical format, it's 100% worth investing in the hardcovers.

[wulv3r]

td

answered / ic. starters. / ic. open. / ic. headcanons / ooc. meta / ooc. shitpost / ooc.

musings / the wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious. once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

ch. study / he will leave paw-prints in the hoar-frost when he runs howling round the graves at night in his lupine fiestas.

visage / he was alive from the desire of the woods.

likes / great joy can easily come from something simple.

desires / Every wolf in the world now howled a prothalamion outside the window as she freely gave him the kiss she owed him.

aesthetic / step into the forest with fear and infinite precautions. for if you stray from the path for one instant the wolves will eat you.

ship inspo / see! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed between the paws of the tender wolf.

my edits / ooc. wardrobe / grey fur on the white snow.

[organicfishass]

Slug is such a great word it’s perfect for the animal and for bullets and fake coins and lazy people and drinking and printing and moving slowly and URLs and alcohol. We should call even more things slug I think we’d all be happier. Slug World 2024.

[robreyart]

Bioluminescence Oil, 18 x 24 in, 2015, First in the Bioluminescence series. The light of life and the natural world. In all the vastness of space, as of yet, we know of only one planet that supports life. At least within some great distance from here, life is rare. Each organism being the exquisite and detailed product of billions of years of evolution, life is precious. This point of light and inspiration stands in contrast to the lanterns and lights that are historically thought to be sources of illumination but are now dimmed; mythologies and superstitions humans have created as we struggled in the dark of ignorance to understand our world. But the process of science has revealed a luminous, living planet, more amazing than we could have ever imagined. Where the intricacies of biology are miracles of evolution and our consciousness is a gift of natural processes that allow us to experience what it is to be alive. Prints: https://robrey.storenvy.com