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CATALINA ZLOTEA Auto-lithography: a bridge between art and commerce This presentation will discuss the work of Charles Mozley (1914–1991), a British artist who is remembered as one of the leading lithographers of the 1960s. Lithography is arguably the most natural autographic printing method for a draughtsman since it captures the exact mark of the hand that moves across the surface. For a spontaneous artist like Mozley, this printing process became second nature. Mozley, who believed that a printing machine should be part of an artist’s palette just as much as his colours, worked directly onto the plate or acetate sheet, making his own separations by eye, rather than by photography. Cătălina Zlotea is a PhD student in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. Her research investigates the life and work of Charles Mozley, artist, illus­trator, printmaker, and designer.

BARRY MCKAY Glaser prints are not photolithographs. This talk will discuss the photographically inspired images that enjoyed a brief popularity in the closing decades of the 19th century. They are almost invariably found used in leporello albums of souvenir views produced for the growing tourist market. Their technique and history will be outlined and examples displayed; a parochial interest means that most of these will be drawn from Cumbria and other northern counties examples. Barry McKay is a bookseller specialising in the arts and history of the book, and a book historian with particular interests in decorated paper and the history of the book trades in the Northern Counties of England. His publications include Patterns & Pigments in English Marbled Papers (1988), A Pretty Mysterious Art (1996), and An Introduction to Chapbooks (2003). He is presently engaged in writing a history of the shepherds' guides of Cumbria.

Thanks to the University of Wolverhampton for hosting this event.