ABSTRACT
The idea of creating a print-based multiple was best explored by painters such as Gilliam and Loving who created several editions where the print was cut and re-assembled by stitching or weaving and then adding screen printed and hand- scraping acrylic paints so that each number in the “edition” was a variation. In some cases, artists used printed elements for paper and canvas collage, embedded them in layers of acrylic to enhance the surface of sculpture or used the repetitive image concept in compositions. Works Progress Administration era artist-printmakers such as Hale Woodruff, Wilmer Jennings, Eldezier Cortor, and John Wilson were experts in etchings and relief printing and passed their talents on as teachers. If the advent of the era of modern art implied a time when the structure of art—its compositional and aesthetic tenants—was reimagined, and canons and traditions challenged, the postmodern era from the 1960s on has been defined by processes and experiences that tend to engage collaboration.
