Chinese Woodblock Woodcut
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Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints
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DescriptionMultiple Impressions examines works by 40 leading printmakers from contemporary China, highlighting the extraordinary innovations, in both technique and conception, which have transformed this long-established art form in recent years... |
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Chinese Printmaking Today: Woodblock Printing in China, 1980-2000
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DescriptionChinese 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... |
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Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde: The Modern Woodcut Movement
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DescriptionIn Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde, Xiaobing Tang studies the art and art theories of the first half of the twentieth century, when modern Chinese art and literature emerged. He argues that the most consequential expression of the avant-garde was the modern woodcut movement that thrived in China in the 1930s... |
Collectors often question us about print numbers - what they mean and how they relate to print values.
To begin, let's take you back to elementary school where you may have trimmed a raw potato to create a design. And then by gently placing the potato into some paint or ink, you created a potato stamp that could be applied to a piece of paper. Result: you made a limited edition work of art.
As you can well imagine, the potato started to deteriorate after a few such stampings. Subsequent prints lost the clarity of the first few strikings.
Today, nearly all of the limited editions that are produced can be "run" in editions of hundreds of thousands before any deterioration occurs. Therefore, the collector should be assured that all prints from a run are identical -- even the proofs!
During the process, the paper (or canvas) is printed on big presses and stacked to dry in numerous piles. The paper or canvas sheets are trimmed and packed for shipment to the publisher where they are curated, signed and numbered. As you can imagine, the various steps make it impossible to tell which prints were printed first.
So why number at all?
Think of the print number as a serial or registration number designed to keep everyone honest. If a print is numbered 152/1200, that is simply the 152nd one numbered.
And while artist's proofs, publisher's proofs, etc. may cost the collector more, they, too, are from that identical "run."
Also, keep in mind that the artist seldom does his own numbering. And that the most valuable limited editions are those in mint condition...regardless of the print number.
Incidentally, etchings and woodblock prints are clearer and sharper at the "beginning of the run." Usually such prints are numbered sequentially as they are produced and early strikings may be more desired than later strikings.
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