Chinese Printmaking Today: Woodblock Printing in China, 1980-2000 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712348239 ISBN 13: 9780712348232

Publisher: The British Library, 2004

Synopsis

Chinese Printmaking Today analyses the contemporary manifestations of an art form that has long occupied an important place in Chinese art. Using works from the Muban Foundation, the foremost research collection of Chinese woodblock prints, the author shows how China's new artistic and political climate has produced images of surprising virtuosity and eloquence. Through detailed examination of works by ninety artists, continuities and innovations in Chinese printmaking are explored. The works are grouped into seven broad themes: text and image, folk traditions, the political legacy, the concrete jungle, the land and its people, the human form, and new directions. Essays by Chinese and British scholars explore the political and literary context of printmaking in modern China; the role of Lu Xun, China's greatest twentieth century writer who was also an enthusiast for woodblock printing; and the materials, tools and techniques that Chinese printmakers use. The history of China's academies of printmaking and short biographies of the print artists are included as appendices, along with a bibliography of works in Chinese, Japanese, and English.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Farrer is Senior Lecturer at Sotheby's Institute of Art, and was formerly Assistant Keeper responsible for the Chinese painting and print collections at the British Museum.

About this edition

• Publisher: The British Library
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0712348239
• ISBN 13: 9780712348232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: Farrer Anne