Traité historique et pratique de la gravure sur bois 1766

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8626113x/f1.image

it happened again, bring the mops, bring all of the mops

The work is the death mask of its conception.

mica printing

the block was firstly prepared with gum arabic, then dusted with mica using a fine brush. The paper was then printed, transferring a sandwich of glue and dust to the required area. Alternatively, the gum was printed directly onto the paper (sometimes through a stencil) and the mica powder was sieved onto the wet glue to be dusted off when the glue had dried.

http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/prints/glossary.html 

Kira-zuri (mica printing)

First, two identical blocks are carved (kiraban). One block is used to print the grounding color. Himenori is applied on the second block, which is then used to transfer the glue onto the paper. Mica powder is subsequently sprinkled onto the surface of the print. After drying, any excess powder is dusted off. There are two or three other methods of kira-zuri. In the artworks of Sharaku and Utamaro, kira-zuri is used to fill in the space between the drawings.

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/yoshitoshi/techniques.html?sf_function=print


anisotropic

A Dream of John Ball

Illustration to William Morris' A Dream of John Ball

Wood engraving, 1892

 

'Ah, ye good people, the matters goeth not well to pass in England, nor shall not do till everything be common, and that there be no villains nor gentlemen, but that we may be all united together, and that the lords be no greater masters than we be. What have we deserved, or why should we be kept thus in servage? We be all come from one father and one mother, Adam and Eve: whereby can they say or shew that they be greater lords than we be, saving by that they cause us to win and labour for that they dispend? They are clothed in velvet and camlet furred with grise, and we be vestured with poor cloth: they have their wines, spices and good bread, and we have the drawing out of the chaff and drink water: they dwell in fair houses, and we have the pain and travail, rain and wind in the fields; and by that that cometh of our labours they keep and maintain their estates: we be called their bondmen, and without we do readily them service, we be beaten; and we have no sovereign to whom we may complain, nor that will hear us nor do us right.'

John Ball, in J Froissart, Froissart's Chronicles (1385) translated by GC Macaulay (1895)

Nupta contagioso.

fight

sua cuique persona

block

 

The struggle for depth (presence) is always effaced (blocked and/or hijacked) by surface-as-information (mediation),or that information flowing through mediatic (mediatized) capital and across the face of commercial architectures as  both style and apparent “surplus” value. 

  

“UPSTREAM”: WHAT IS “IN” FORMAL AGENCY?  
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