Artist's Books

Code:

LA501

Acronym:

LA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Drawing

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://pureprint.fba.up.pt/
Responsible unit:	Desenho
Course/CS Responsible:	Fine Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
AP	19	Official Study Plan 2011	3	-	4,5	64	121,5
			4

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Solid learning of the methods that assist an officinal production of artist books through an initiation to historical procedures ( lithography, photoetching).
">This technological approach allows the student to develop independent work, analytical capacity and critical sense about the fine art printing context.

Students develop experimental and research practices based on the updating of print processes historically employed in original graphic production contexts. The variety of research and implementation strategies -technological experiments, artistic experimentation, manuals-provides an officinal consolidation of a spectrum of graphic procedures.
">Students acquire the methodological skills related to workshop practice in order to broaden their own technical repertoire and implement ideas of increasing complexity.

Students understand how the experimentation and verification of the explicit and implicit mechanisms of the technologies to work, help to understand the historical, social and technical context of the production of artist books in an expanded field. The practical exercise begins an awareness of the historical, social and technical context of the production of the artist's book and editing context associated with fine art printing and artist editions. To know and to use of the graphic traditions in its relation with the officinal production, in the sense of the efficiency of the results of integrated form with the expressive practice and individual critical.

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Program

">.. 1-Concept, history of the artist's book and current context of the selfpublisding edition and multiple prodution


">The Printing Trilogy: Matrix, Ink, Substrate


">The components of printed image: printing, multiplication, dissemination


">Content through the technique: incription, translation, reproduction, materiality, accessibility, collaboration


">Printing as a process to the detriment of the result.


">2-Technological introductions: think through doing, explore, verify, expand.

A;
">Basic introductions to structuring technological principles: the basic techniques of paper handling_ folding, creasing, gluing, baking, cutting, tearing, printing, decal, drilling;

.paper and three-dimensionality;
">learning to build in volume, thinking in sequence

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">explore and apply simple binding techniques.

B;
">Plastic Surveys About Printing into differente substrates


">- transfer techniques, planographic techniques In situ lithography as case study

W;
">Introduction of advanced printing method.


">- photomechanical printing techniques (photopolimer and photolithography) and hibrid tecnhniques . Electrography and silkscreen combined techniques. 

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">Graphic production of a printed editorial project.

- Layout and editing
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Mandatory literature

Moeglin-Delcroix Anne; Esthétique du livre d.artiste. ISBN: 2-85893-291-3
Drucker Johanna; The^century of artists. books. ISBN: 978-1-887123-69-3
Devon Marjorie; Tamarind techniques for fine art lithography. ISBN: 978-0-8109-7242-1

Complementary Bibliography

Parshall Peter; The^unfinished print. ISBN: 0-85331-820-4
Kathan Brown ; Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood: Painters and Sculptors , Chronicle Books, 1996

Teaching methods and learning activities

">Tutorial actions of collective and individual orientation and criticism to the different types of exercise produced

Demonstration sessions conducted by strict compliance with technological guidelines.
">Progressive approach to the various technical stages


">Mock-ups and exercises on book components and approach to paper


">Research sessions, development and preliminary exercises for projects of a more experimental nature.


">Sessions of deepening of the practice implied from the technical hypotheses presented and already tested and those that arise from an individual exploration of the statements.


">Presentation session, discussion and realization of an individual research project, report, documentation of the self-publisihing project


">Open sessions: presentation of authors, and study visits and invitations to engravers and / or printers, editors to present their professional experience

">Collective sessions of exhibition, presentation, analysis, discussion and critique of projects carried out dedicated to the integration of students in the real context of author's edition: organization, execution, finishing

">sessions.

Sessions of sharing of experiences in the workshop, consultations of the archives, exchange of experiences with presentation of works by their peers.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho laboratorial	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	40,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho laboratorial	40,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Realization of individual project submitted through assembly in space and visual portfolio Laboratory work documentation (workshop book). Fieldwork documentation (book of workshops)

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation focuses on the observation of the performance of each student against the objectives of the program and the result against the proposed exercises. These are inserted in:

Project with individual theme, accompanied by an appropriate documentary record (workshop book).

Experimental essays kept in parallel with the mandatory completion of a minimum of 4 mock-ups of books, and an edited printed book or single copy.

The following parameters are also considered:

Attendance and follow-up to all the organized demonstrations.

Ability to work and monetize available office space.

Involvement with the practice of printing in an experimental and workshop sense.

Acquisition of adequate technical skills in the production of original books.

Originality and quality of books produced.

Ability to contextualize and position the resource of the artist book as a contemporary artistic practice