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For print lovers this will be a refreshing complement to the finest print library. Relief printing has played a major role in art in Australia from the 19th century forward. Here is the diversity of printmaking techniques through each period to today when prints are being made in enormous sizes or are produced not as multiples but as monotypes of densely layered works or across media. The artists shown, one to a page, have exhibited widely internationally and include early masters like Lionel Lindsay, Michael O'Connell and George Bell, Margaret Preston and Vivien Littlejohn. (National Gallery of Victoria)Grant, Kirsty is the author of 'In Relief Australian Wood Engravings Woodcuts and Linocuts' with ISBN 9780724101917 and ISBN 0724101918.
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