SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
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A CELEBRATION OF
WOOD with
Wesley
King Library Press |
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THE KING LIBRARY PRESS
"A Survey of Wood Engraving" Wesley W. Bates
Friday: 9 April 1999 |
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The art of illustrating texts in type from art on wood began early in the history of printing. In the incunabula period it reached its zenith with the richly adorned Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493. Early illustrators worked "on the plank," or the side grain, of a piece of wood. In the nineteenth century the technique of wood engraving, or cutting on the end grain of the wood, attained an extraordinary level of achievement in the hands of Thomas Bewick. Bewick has many followers, including Eric Gill, Joan Hassall, John Buckland Wright, Richard Shirley Smith, and, in present days, WESLEY W. BATES.
WESLEY BATES last year published Wendell Berry's Roots to the Earth, illustrated with his own wood engravings. Born in the Yukon, educated in Canada as a painter and printmaker, Mr. Bates presently works as a freelance artist in Ontario. His clients include the University of Toronto Press, Harcourt Brace, Penguin-Viking, The Wall Street Journal, HarperCollins, Imperial Oil, Nabisco, and IGA Foods Canada.
Join WESLEY BATES as he discusses the methods of cutting illustrations on wood, work with him in making original prints at the press, then mount them in a text set from movable type.
How to participate in
The Wood Engraving Workshop
| A. | Friday's Evening Lecture is free and open to all. |
| B. | For the Saturday Workshop, there is a fee of $35.00. |
| C. | Workshop participation is limited to fifteen. |
| D. | Reservations for The Wood Engraving may be made by phone or mail,
but must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, 8 April. Send your check (payable
to University of Kentucky) to:
The King Library Press University of Kentucky Libraries Lexington, KY 40506-0039 |
| E. | If you have questions, please call 606 257-8408 or send an electronic message to klijdb@pop.uky.edu. |
Saturday: 10 April 1999
| 9:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast The King Library Press Special Collections, King Library North |
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| 10:00 a.m. |
"Wesley Bates Talks Shop Tools & Techniques of Wood Engraving, Sources of Supply, Organizations |
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| 10:45 a.m. |
"Pulling Prints from Wood Print at the King Library Press and Mount prints as Graphics for An Illustrated Publication |
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| Noon | Lunch on Your Own | |
| 1:30 p.m. | Workshop Resumes |