So I am in the first stages of researching for my dissertation... trying to get a start on it while I have all this time off during the summer. I want to write about the effect that Apartheid had on South African Printmaking and have been reading about the art educational system and limited printmaking supplies available to the segregated races. I stumbled across a very interesting fact about why wood became more regularly used for relief printing over lino.
Prior to the 1960's Linoleum was easily obtainable as it was one of the most popular flooring materials because of its affordability. Printmakers could get hold of it easily from their local flooring distributor. However, in the 1960's more synthetic types of flooring were introduced because of their durability against the the newly fashionable stiletto heel. Flooring companies that were importing linoleum went out of business so lino had to be imported by art supply shops in smaller quantities, thus making it more expensive and almost unattainable during the periods of the economical boycotts in the 1980's. Thus wood became the more popular relief printing material.
Just a bit of interesting information...
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