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H. N. Werkman (Monographics) Paperback – Bargain Price, September 10, 2004

by Alston W. Purvis (Author)
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Dutch designer and printmaker Hendrik Werkman (1882–1945) is best known for his innovative printing techniques and avant-garde typography. As publisher of De Blauwe Schuitt, a series of underground booklets produced by Jewish dissident poets and writers during the Nazi occupation of Holland, Werkman was imprisoned by German secret police in 1945 and executed without trial just three days before the country’s liberation. This generously illustrated book is the first in English to focus on Werkman’s remarkable graphic work and fascinating life.Werkman founded his own printmaking shop in 1908. His self-produced magazine The Next Call waspublished in 1923 and included typographical and other printmaking experiments as well as the designer’s own Dadaist poems and texts. Werkman also developed a printmaking process he called “hot printing,” a technique incorporating found materials that added repeated design elements directly onto the paper—all without the use of a printing press. Although much of his work was destroyed at the time of his execution, the remarkable examples that remain tell the story of a maverick designer and typographer whose graphic vision was playful, bold, experimental, and unwaveringly optimistic.
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  1. Print length
    112 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Yale University Press
  4. Publication date
    September 10, 2004
  5. Dimensions
    9.4 x 7.56 x 0.45 inches
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This generously illustrated book—the first to focus on the career of Hendrik Werkman (1882-1945), the Dutch avant-garde designer, typographer, and printmaker—discusses Werkman’s innovative techniques and fascinating biography, including his support of Jewish dissident writers during the Holocaust.

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“With a new series called Mongraphics, Yale University Press offers a perfectly compact and affordable way to become more intimate with the superstars of contemporary graphics.”—Glen Haelfand, CMYK-->


This generously illustrated book—the first to focus on the career of Hendrik Werkman (1882-1945), the Dutch avant-garde designer, typographer, and printmaker—discusses Werkman’s innovative techniques and fascinating biography, including his support of Jewish dissident writers during the Holocaust.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003GAN28S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press (September 10, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.4 x 7.56 x 0.45 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

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Reuben Keeling
5.0 out of 5 stars Unique but shortlived
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2010
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I first discovered Werkman when I was in Amsterdam, and went to the Van Gogh museum. I work as a designer and editor, so I guess Werkman's background and use of the printing press appealed to me. Unfortunately, most of his work was destroyed by the Nazis, but this book is a great catalogue of what survived. This book gives you a glimpse of the artist's life, and how his art developed through his short career. But I mainly bought it for the art, and was very happy.
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observer100
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to Werkman in English
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2009
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The Dutch print-maker and painter H N Werkman is well-known in the Netherlands and featured strongly in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in its better days. His work should be better known worldwide. There is an excellent range of books on him in Dutch including a two-volume book of his correspondence and a complete illustrated catalogue of all his known extant work. This short paperback fulfills the need for a short text in English. It contains an excellent and substantial range of illustrations of his work, sufficient to give a very good impression of its scope. Werkman would have been far more widely known if he had not been shot by the Nazis three days before they capitulated. This book is a delight.
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