We sell books about the traditional techniques of etching, lithography, woodcut, wood engraving and serigraphy or silkscreening. We also have books about printmakers and catalogue raisonnes of many artists and museum exhibition catalogs.
In addition to the featured books below, S+P offers additional books for sale at:
https://www.abebooks.com/SP-Books-New-Orleans-LA-U.S.A/54260455/sf
From Society to Socialism: The Art of Caroline Durieux
In 2008, the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University mounted an exhibition that focused on the work of Caroline Durieux, set among images created by her contemporaries in Mexico and her fellow American artists who also traveled south of the border. The exhibition catalog includes black and white and color images by Durieux, Emilio Amero, William Spratling, Diego Rivera, Elizabeth Catlett, Howard Cook, Miguel Covarrubias, Pop Hart, Jose Clemente Orozco and Henrietta Shore. Softcover, 58 pages with 50 illustrations. $15
Frederick Mershimer, Mezzotints 1984-2006
Published by Stone & Press Gallery in 2007, this catalogue raisonne of New York artist, Frederick Mershimer (b.1958) includes essays by Rene Stout, Carol Wax and Rev. Joseph Haller, S.J of Georgetown. Each print is illustrated on a single page with notes about locale and expresson. Hardcover, with 118 illustrations in full color. $50
A deluxe edition of the Mershimer catalog raisonne contains an original print, Into the Night, with a book signed by the artist and authors. Presented in an attractive clamshell box, only a few of these remain. Please inquire for a price.
Printmaking in New Orleans (Jessie Poesche, ed.)
Published by the Historic New Orleans Collection in 2006, this visually stunning book is the first survey to examine Louisiana printmaking in-depth. It contains a wealth of information about the graphic arts in New Orleans and Louisiana spanning cultural strata from highbrow to pop. Edited and with an introduction by Jessie J. Poesch, Printmaking in New Orleans is among the definitive works on southern cultural history. The book’s fourteen chapters, contributed by participants of a 1987 symposium organized by the North American Print Conference, trace the development of printmaking from colonial times through the present and features considerable biographical information on the printmakers themselves. Hardcover, 271 pages with 185 illustrations ranging from fine art engravings to advertisements. $60
