Print Media

Print Quarterly (peer-reviewed)

Print Quarterly is the leading international journal dedicated to the art of the print from its origins to the present. It is peer-reviewed.

The Journal publishes recent scholarship on a wide range of topics, including printmakers, iconography, social and cultural history, popular culture, print collecting, book illustration, decorative prints, and techniques such as engraving, etching, woodcutting, lithography and digital printmaking.

The Journal strives to cover Asian, Latin American and African printmaking as well as the Western tradition.

Founded in 1984 by David Landau, who served as Print Quarterly’s first editor for twenty-seven years, and an editorial board consisting of notable academics and curators of graphic arts, the Journal continues to feature substantial articles, shorter notices and a comprehensive section of catalogue and book reviews. In addition, the notes section consists of brief comments ranging in length from a paragraph to several pages.

Contributions have included such diverse subjects as Francesco Salviati, the influence of a seventeenth-century fencing manual, Jean-Etienne Liotard, a quiz on an unidentified etching, the collector Pierre-Jean Mariette, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Whistler, Soviet and Vietnamese posters, Jim Dine, comic strips, Ad Reinhardt, William Kentridge and digital prints.

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Printmaking Today

Printmaking Today was first published in 1990 by Rosemary Simmons. From 1994 to 2000 it was published by Farrand Press.

"I started Printmaking Today in 1990 with help from the Henry Moore Foundation. My background as a printmaker, print gallery and lithographic studio director, teacher and writer gave me a broad understanding of the field. I wanted to provide a forum for printmakers, an exchange of practical information and to make a bridge between practitioners and collectors or curators. I wanted printmaking to be understood and appreciated for its unique qualities and to be taken seriously as an international art form.

In 1990 the non-toxic movement was growing and needed dissemination and digital technology was suggesting new directions for printmaking. It is an art form, which is constantly re-inventing itself, and the excitement does not lessen as Printmaking Today brings together artists, curators and collectors from many cultures.

We continue to comment on aesthetic, educational and theoretical matters as well as bringing the reader new developments in print technology and re-assessments of traditional methods. Many of our writers are printmakers and speak from experience. Others are art historians, publishers, educationalists and suppliers of materials and equipment. We keep you up-to-date with exhibitions and opportunities for printmakers. You are encouraged to air your views, exchange information and above all, keep in touch with all aspects of international printmaking. We are based in Britain but have contacts around the globe and see printmaking as the most international of all art forms."