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A History of Screen Printing: How an Art Evolved into an Industry by Guido Lengwiler

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Author Guido Lengwiler covers the stencil precursers leading up to the end of the 19th century, and then profiles the many American companies and individual artists, printers, sign companies, inventors and manufacturers who first started using the new process. The book follows the rapid spread around the world pre-WWII, and covers specialized areas where screenprinting flourished, creating or transforming whole manufacturing sectors - printed electronics, serigraphy, glass & ceramic decoration, textile printing.

Hard cover, 490 pages, full colour, lavishly illustrated, limited run, fully annotated, with an introduction by noted art historian Richard Field of Yale. Published in English 2013.

The book is out of print. The German edition of this sold out, and the English language version has a limited number left we are proud to have a few copies to share thanks to Andy MacDougall.

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Author Guido Lengwiler covers the stencil precursers leading up to the end of the 19th century, and then profiles the many American companies and individual artists, printers, sign companies, inventors and manufacturers who first started using the new process. The book follows the rapid spread around the world pre-WWII, and covers specialized areas where screenprinting flourished, creating or transforming whole manufacturing sectors - printed electronics, serigraphy, glass & ceramic decoration, textile printing.

Hard cover, 490 pages, full colour, lavishly illustrated, limited run, fully annotated, with an introduction by noted art historian Richard Field of Yale. Published in English 2013.

The book is out of print. The German edition of this sold out, and the English language version has a limited number left we are proud to have a few copies to share thanks to Andy MacDougall.

Author Guido Lengwiler covers the stencil precursers leading up to the end of the 19th century, and then profiles the many American companies and individual artists, printers, sign companies, inventors and manufacturers who first started using the new process. The book follows the rapid spread around the world pre-WWII, and covers specialized areas where screenprinting flourished, creating or transforming whole manufacturing sectors - printed electronics, serigraphy, glass & ceramic decoration, textile printing.

Hard cover, 490 pages, full colour, lavishly illustrated, limited run, fully annotated, with an introduction by noted art historian Richard Field of Yale. Published in English 2013.

The book is out of print. The German edition of this sold out, and the English language version has a limited number left we are proud to have a few copies to share thanks to Andy MacDougall.

A look inside

The graphic applications were ‘borrowed’ from the felt pennant manufacturers, who had already worked out the process. Being a highly secret process, the stories of industrial espionage back in the day make the narrative read like a novel.

The research proves that the first known evidence of graphic screenprinting emerged from the rubble of the San Francisco earthquake. It was small groups of graphic artists, working independently, solved the riddle of mass produced cheap colored signage.

The serigraphy chapter shows there were plenty of art prints being produced before WPA artists claimed the invention of 'serigraphy' in New York in the 1940s. 'Sayergraphs', screen prints of the California artist Grayson Sayer in the early 1920s, were one example. Many of the pioneers were trained artists who gravitated to the process.