Pour une collection intitulée Impressions: Essays on the Art of Printing

La maison d'édition The Legacy Press lance un appel à contributions pour une collection, intitulée Impressions: Essays on the Art of Printing.

Vous trouverez tous les détails de l'appel (en anglais seulement) ci-dessous :

The Impressions series encompasses all of the printing arts: letterpress, intaglio, lithographic, and serigraphic, as well as related arts, such as stamping, stenciling, and pochoir.

Series Editor: Rebecca M. Chung (M.S., University of Michigan School of Information; Ph.D., English Literature, University of Chicago) has been involved in the printing arts as a textual scholar, book historian, and archivist. She is a practical printer, bibliographer, and information specialist (preservation, archives). Rebecca is particularly interested in the materiality of printed texts and images, as well as their history of textual transmission (in all media including digital).

Impressions, Vol. 1: Focus will be on women in printing and printmaking, and the role of gender

For its inaugural volume, Impressions invites submissions on the topic of women printers and printmakers, as well as the role of gender in the printing arts. All forms of printing and printmaking will be considered, as well as approaches to the topic from diverse areas of expertise: book arts, practical printing, bibliography, and historical (art history, book history, printing history, literary history). While centering attention on the category of women, the volume also welcomes essays that include inclusive thinking about gender identity and sexual orientation in relation to the printing arts.

Recent work in literary and art history suggests that women were active in the growth of printing and publishing in Europe and the Americas, although their activity is only beginning to be documented through research. Simultaneously, book and printing historians are exploring the revisions of print and printmaking history needed as worldwide contributions challenge the Gutenberg-centered narrative that have dominated Anglo-European origin stories until quite recently. Submissions should argue for the significance of the topic to change or enrich understanding the contributions of women to the growth of the printing arts, and also address the question of how gender impacts current understandings of print and printmaking.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Shops, organizations, trade and industrial practice
Creating printed matter or illustration
Women artists
Beatrice Warde and other women writers or innovators on the printing arts
Manufacture of prints, editions, tools, and supplies
Gender and printers or printmakers worldwide
Gender trouble, intersectionality, and the printing arts

Impressions is particularly interested in studies that make rich use of images either as part of studying a printmaking process and/or as examples from archives and collections. And as is true of the other The Legacy Press's essay series (www.thelegacypress.com), Impressions welcomes both published scholars and new authors, and both established areas of inquiry and topics not previously addressed in other publications.
If you have an essay in preparation or if you would like more information about Impressions, please email Rebecca:

chung.rm@gmail.com