Screen printing as a 20th Century graphic medium

Hoskins, Stephen

Abstract

Within the canon of twenty-first century printing history, screen printing is definitely the poor relation. By comparison a great deal of literature concerning the demise and continued existence of metal type and letterpress has been published and discussed. Yet screen printing as a commercial graphic printing medium has quietly come and gone within the confines of the twentieth century, with very little documentation of either the technical aspects of the process, or its socio-historic context. It is possible to start talking here about screen printing being alive and healthy in an art context as a printmaking medium. In fact that is where the majority of the documentation lies.

This article was given as a presentation at the Printing Historical Society conference From craft to technology and back again: print’s progress in the twentieth century, held at the Centre for Printing History and Culture and The National Print Museum, Dublin 2017

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 10, 2017
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Feb 21, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 2, 2019
• Journal: Journal of the Printing Historical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 30
• Keywords: screen printing, printmaking
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/874504
• Publisher URL: http://printinghistoricalsociety.org.uk/index.html
• Contract Date: Feb 21, 2018