Ink Paper Chisel Grain

A Remarkable History of Woodcuts

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'A fascinating account of the hidden history of the humble woodcut' </b><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i><br><br><b><i>Ink Paper Chisel Grain </i>is a dazzling journey through 500 years of art, ideas and human imagination, told through one of the most enduring and versatile artistic mediums ever created.</b><br><br>At its simplest, a woodcut begins with a piece of wood, a cutting tool, ink and paper. Yet from these humble materials artists have created some of the most powerful images in human history. In <i>Ink Paper Chisel Grain, </i>artist and printmaker Paul Coldwell invites us into intimate encounters with the works and makers who transformed woodcut from a practical technology into a vehicle for beauty, revolution, protest and wonder.</p><p>Travelling across centuries and continents, Coldwell guides us from Albrecht Dürer's apocalyptic visions and Hokusai's <i>Great Wave </i>to Käthe Kollwitz's searing anti-war prints and the monumental contemporary works of William Kentridge. Along the way we meet artists, printers, collectors, curators and craftsmen; step inside museums, archives and studios; and discover how a simple process of cutting into wood helped shape the visual culture of the modern world.</p><p><b>Part history, part travelogue, part meditation on art and making</b><i>, Ink Paper Chisel Grain </i><b>reveals how woodcut has survived every technological revolution thrown at it, celebrating the enduring human impulse to leave a mark.</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241682203

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

240 x 163 x 44 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)