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... image. Both liphography and screen printing play on the fundemental principal of the natrual antipathy of grease and water and they way they separate.At the end of the fiftys Chris and Rose Prater founded the Kepra print press, a printmaking studio dedicated to screenprinting, a growing technique used by flourishing commercial artists since the fortys. The Praters had a close knit relashonship with the Tate corporation, and generously offered a copy of every print they produced to the tates print collection. The gift is some 1,400 screenprints in total. Hon. Robert Erskine, who at the end of the fiftys created a publishing proggramme at st. Georges gallery, London, is considered to have been at the front of the print boom of the post war period. The timing of this 'renaissance'was in contunction with a general economic boom. He had an aim to make good art be appreciated by ' the ...
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