Chinese Printmaking Today
Author | : Anne Farrer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
An exhibition at the British Library, 7 November 2003-7 March 2004 in association with the Muban Foundation.
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Author | : Anne Farrer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
An exhibition at the British Library, 7 November 2003-7 March 2004 in association with the Muban Foundation.
Author | : Xiaobing Tang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781930561144 |
Catalogue accompanying exhibition, University of Michigan Museum of Art, July 16-October 23, 2011.
Author | : Ellen Johnston Laing |
Publisher | : U of M Center for Chinese Studies |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Traditional woodblock prints preserve a Chinese folk art that has now nearly vanished. This book explores and explains the artistic and aesthetic bases of popular prints revealed in eighty-four late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prints belonging to the London-based Muban Foundation. Woodblock printing was the principal method of producing inexpensive and colorful single-sheet images for mass consumption in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China. Prints of this type are known today as "New Year pictures" because the demand for them peaked at New Year's time. However, the term "popular print" more accurately describes these works, whose subjects include deities and tutelary spirits, illustrations to stories and operas, and even contemporary political or revolutionary messages. The emphasis on the artistic aspects of these prints makes this publication uniquely appealing to Chinese art historians but also to those interested in Chinese anthropology, popular religion, Chinese and other folk art, and traditional crafts. Ellen J. Laing received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She was Maude I. Kerns Distinguished Professor of Oriental Art, University of Oregon and is currently Research Associate at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. She has published numerous scholarly articles, books, and reference works on Chinese art.
Author | : David Barker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2005-04-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
China was one of the first civilizations to engage in printmaking. Ink, paper, printing from cut wooden blocks and moveable type were all invented in China. This unique book provides both a helpful introduction to the history and traditions of printmaking in China and a comprehensive guide to traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques, including detailed and illustrated sections on different techniques (single color, watercolor, poster color, stencil, and dabbed printing).
Author | : Ruth Pelzer-Montada |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2018-07-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1526125765 |
This anthology, the first of its kind, presents thirty-two texts on contemporary prints and printmaking written from the mid-1980s to the present by authors from across the world. The texts range from history and criticism to creative writing. More than a general survey, they provide a critical topography of artistic printmaking during the period. The book is directed at an audience of international stakeholders in the field of contemporary print, printmaking and printmedia, including art students, practising artists, museum curators, critics, educationalists, print publishers and print scholars. It expands debate in the field and will act as a starting point for further research.
Author | : Xiaobing Tang |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-01-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107084393 |
Explores China's rich visual culture from the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present day.
Author | : Rebecca Salter |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002-02-28 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780824825539 |
Of all the sophisticated traditional arts and crafts of Japan, woodblock prints are probably the most widely known in the West. The bold yet refined compositions are as fresh to the Western eye today as they were when they first came to the attention of the Impressionists in the nineteenth century. With their fluid lines, intricate carving and delicate colors, Japanese prints are still as fascinating as ever. In this book, Rebecca Salter takes us through the history of the Japanese woodblock, discusses the materials, tools, and papers available (and their Western equivalents) and shows how to get the most out of them through interesting step-by-step projects. The work of an international group of artists shows the varied and exciting prints being produced today.
Author | : Merlyn Chesterman |
Publisher | : Crowood |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-02-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1847979041 |
Woodblock printing is an ancient art form, which produces beautiful, subtle and lively pieces with just a few simple materials. This book introduces the art, and shares technical information and ideas for those with more experience. A wide range of exciting examples of printed woodcuts are shown along with advice on materials and tools, and a step-by-step guide to sharpening. Techniques to achieve quality prints and perfect registration are covered too. Drawing on the vibrant living traditions from China and Japan, it is both a technical guide and an inspiration. Beautifully illustrated with 160 colour photographs.
Author | : Bing Xu |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0262536226 |
A book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read. —Xu Bing Following his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are universally understood. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative of Book from the Ground. The result is a readable story without words, an account of twenty-four hours in the life of “Mr. Black,” a typical urban white-collar worker. Our protagonist's day begins with wake-up calls from a nearby bird and his bedside alarm clock; it continues through tooth-brushing, coffee-making, TV-watching, and cat-feeding. He commutes to his job on the subway, works in his office, ponders various fast-food options for lunch, waits in line for the bathroom, daydreams, sends flowers, socializes after work, goes home, kills a mosquito, goes to bed, sleeps, and gets up the next morning to do it all over again. His day is recounted with meticulous and intimate detail, and reads like a postmodern, post-textual riff on James Joyce's account of Bloom's peregrinations in Ulysses. But Xu Bing's narrative, using an exclusively visual language, could be published anywhere, without translation or explication; anyone with experience in contemporary life—anyone who has internalized the icons and logos of modernity, from smiley faces to transit maps to menus—can understand it.