Monoprint: an opening up of ‘printness’?
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Hancill, M. (2023). Monoprint: an opening up of ‘printness’?. IMPACT Printmaking Journal, (1), 18. https://doi.org/10.54632/22.7.IMPJ6

Abstract

This paper concerns monoprinting processes and the prints that emerge from them. Historically, the monotype holds the title of the only printing process to result in single, unique prints, whereas monoprints are “unique impressions that derive from the variable treatment of a matrix that also has some fixed, repeatable inscription on it” (Roberts, 2017 p.26). These terms are now generally used interchangeably, and for this discussion, I will use the term monoprint to encompass all unique prints, including the monotype, and one-off prints emerging from screenprinting, lithography, etching and relief processes.

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