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Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures
Rockwellkentiana Few Words and Many Pictures Author:Rockwell Kent 1933 First edition. "Few words and many pictures by R. K." "and by Carl Zigrosser, "A bibliography and list of prints". The bibliography is of the writings and illustrations. Includes reproductions of Kent"s drawings, prints and paintings. Heavily illustrated with full-color frontispiece, and many plates, particularly at the back of the book. Fr... more »om Rockwell Kent's statement at the end of the book: "This book of reproductions of an artist's work is, as a book, itself SPECIMEN of that work. It should bear his signature - and shall. Yet he may not thus lay claim to it without acknowledging however reluctantly, that perhaps its best qualities are the work of its makers, THE LAKESIDE PRESS, nor without confessing that where his own hand as a book designer faltered it was sustained and steadied by The Lakeside Press's William Kittredge - without confessing that and thanking him. No work of art, no matter how robust its qualities can bear bad reproduction. No artist tolerates it. Seeking, for the pictures of this book, the best available process of reproduction, that known as the Donnelly Deeptone Process was chosen. It was a new technique in offset lithography and, by its nature, offered itself impartially to the reproduction, either in color or in black and white, of those varied media - painting, drawing, wood engraving, and lithography - which were to be represented int he book, and promised to reproduce, without the sacrifice of clarity and brilliance, those subtler values which were essential to the pictures." -- Rockwell Kent« less