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Grease and Water: Lithography as a Chemical Trick

Grease and Water: Lithography as a Chemical Trick

Exhibition

Grease and Water: Lithography as a Chemical Trick

Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine23 August 2027 — 19 February 2028Музей книги і друкарства України

A limestone slab with a drawing. The whole process rests on grease and water not mixing — no relief, no burin.

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The Technology That Made the Poster Possible

Lithography gave large format and colour before anything else.

The Stone Weighs More Than the Press

A slab the size of a sheet weighs about sixty kilograms.

Demonstrations Use Water, Despite the Risk

There is no dry way to demonstrate lithography.

A Stone with the Drawing Still on It

A slab never prepared for the next job, so the image stayed.

Grease and Water: Lithography as a Chemical Trick

Printing without relief: a flat stone on which ink adheres selectively.

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