The Lithographic Book Lithography and the Book, illustration and design in the commercial sector. You can make a lithograph as complicated as a French nineteenth century academic painting. But its fundamental nature is limestone, a unique quality which Daumier perhaps understood best.
Great lithography has to do with the stoneness of stone.
Robert Motherwell, quoted in Gilmour beneath. Next year pictures executed by a number of modern French artists, headed by Picasso and Matisse, using this plastic will be avaialable. Altogether a very exciting development, of which at present, only the fringe has been explored. Smith 1949 beneath. Major Figures of Twentieth Century Commercial Lithography.