More Links on Printing, Bookmaking, Printmaking

 More Links on Printing, Bookmaking, Printmaking

Some of these links will be duplicated from the last list because there is some carryover (certain videos illustrate both handpress-era and modern practices). I'll continue to add resources to this as I find them, but wanted to get these to you in advance of your visit next week (Oct. 13). 

Short Videos On the Letterpress revival

Short Letterpress Documentary (Firefly Letterpress): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv69kB_e9KY

Upside Down, Left to Right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RqWe1bFpM
Locking up lead type in chase for printing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuRMunlMULI
(Another short letterpress video (University of Plymouth)

Ink & Paper :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_1UsFf3IcU - This one is very tedious with bad sound but shows how a single page is locked up in a chase using furniture and quoins.

Longer documentaries:

Proceed and Be Bold! (Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Detroit): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i251DDffUzY

Educational Films on 20^th C. processes

Typesetting: Linotype – 1960 Printing Educational Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoP6dheF8zc

Oxford University Press and the Making of a Book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW7wsXuw2cI. Pay Attention to these sections

• Monotype composing machines – 4:55
• Stereotyping – 6:30
• Steam-Powered Press  (printing from type) - 8:35
• Offset Lithographic Printing (in 64mo) - 8:07
• Modern binding (by machine and by hand - notice how women aren't operating any binding machinery - only sewing machines!) - 9:25
• Machine-sewn gatherings - 11:55
• Gilding the edges of the text block - 12:36
• Machine made case-bindings - 13:47

Newspaper Printing (Letterpress) "From Trees to Tribunes" Part 3 1931 Chicago Tribune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Y95phLnsM (includes Photolithography, stereotyping)

Making Books (1947 Encyclopedia Britannica Film). (This video is for children.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbCuL3XcS8

Videos on Printmaking Processes:
Italglio engraving/etching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKn4PORGBI

Basic Stone Lithography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc

Stone Lithography at an Edinburgh Printmaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E38B0swb4vo

Early Woodcut printing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgCYovlFRNY

Other Resources
Gaskell Wiki http://whitneyannetrettien.com/whiki/index.php?title=Gaskell_1972. I have found this wiki (developed by Dr. Whitney Trettien doc program) very helpful in isolated the basic premise of Gaskell.

Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker

       Hoban's novel Riddley Walker is an incredibly complex text, but I think it can certainly be asserted that Hoban is concerned with the two major issues that motivated Drucker's first work that she discusses: "the way in which visual structures actually produce meaning, and the relation between language and experience". The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic society thousands of years after nuclear war has destroyed the planet. Hoban imagines society reverting back to a Dark Ages system of intellectual inquiry, scientific discovery, artistic production, and most importantly for this discussion language. Hoban actually creates a linguistic system for these characters that uses all of the characters of type that we are familiar with, but arranged in an order that at times can be incredibly difficult to interpret. This language changes the way we view the characters' experiences of their reality, but also the way the reader experiences their reality. At times in the story there is also typescript that is set apart in a stanza-like presentation, type that is in italics, and type that is bold and in all capital letters. All of these different typescripts signify different meanings about the subject matter of the text being discussed. Hoban also encourages a radial reading of the text (such as McGann discusses). There is a glossary of some of the words he has created in the back of the book, as well as a history of the St. Eustace portrait upon which many of the characters base their religious and cultural philosophies. There are also other images scattered throughout the text that one can refer to as they read. Hoban has created a world in which language signifies experience differently and in which visuals produce meaning differently and asks the reader to explore this as well through his use of typography and spatial elements of his text.