Ancient Chinese Woodcuts and Emerging Woodcuts

Author: Li Hu
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Publish Date: 1995-01-01
Features: Professor Li Hua, chairman of the Chinese Woodcutters' Union, is one of the founders of the modern Chinese woodcut movement. For more than half a century, he has been working as an artist and a teacher. He is a most accomplished woodcutter and also a collector and researcher of ancient Chinese woodcuts. With full and accurate historical data and a penetrating and original perspective, his Chinese woodcuts describe, in two parts, the development of the art from ancient to modern times. Representative works of all eras have been collected for this book. It is a profound study of both the theory and practice of the art of woodcut.