PROFESSOR Ij Hua, chairman of the Chinese Woodcutters' Union, is one of the tounders of the modem Chinese woodcut movement. For more than half a cenhury he has been working as an artist and a teacher. He is a most accomplished woodcutter and also a collector and researcher of andent Chinese woodcuts. With (full and accurate historical data and a penebating and original point of view, his Chinese Woodcuts describes, in two parts, the development of the art from andent to modem times. Representative works of all epochs have been colleded for this book. It is a profound study of both the theory and practice of the art of the woodcut.
作者簡介
About the Author Ll Hua, a native of Panyu County, Guangdong Province, was bom in 1907. In 1926 he graduated from the Guangzhou Institute of Art and began to teach there. Since 1934 he has been engaged in the modem woodcut movement. He was president of the AH-China Woodcutters Association; organized the Modem Block Print Association in Guangzhou; edited a series on the modem block print. After the founding of New China in 1949 he became a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and dean of the woodcut department, a member of the Chinese Federation of Writers and Artists, a standing committee member of the Chinese Artists' Union, chairman of the Chinese Woodcutters' Union, and editor-in-chief of the joumal Block Print. For a long time he has been teaching and researching art theory. His woodcuts have been repeatedly exhibited at home and abroad. Selected works have been published. Significant works are Selected Woodcuts of Li Hua, Twenty Lectures on the Laws ofArtistic Creation, and Free Talk on the Realm of Art.
圖書目錄
Contents
Introduction
Part One Ancient Woodcuts
I. The Invention of Chinese Block Printing and the Rise of Woodcut Prints
11. Woodcut Prints from the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties
III. Woodcut Prints of the Song and Yuan Dynasties
IV. Woodcut Prints of the Ming Dynasty
1. Prints of the Early Ming Dynasty
2. Woodcut Prints of Mid Ming Dynasty
3. The Hui School of Engraving
4. Rise ot Art-Manual Block Prints
5. The Climax of Late Ming Dynasty Woodcut Prints
V. Woodcut Prints of the Qing Dynasty
1. Imperial Block Prints of the Early Qing Dynasty
2. Resurgence of Woodcut Prints
3. The Lingering Light of Woodcut Prints at the End of the Qing Dynasty
4. The Rise of Rongbaozhai
VI. Woodcuts Among the People
1. Yangliuqing New Year Prints
2. Taohuawu New Year Prints
3. Southem Shanxi New Year Prints
Part Two Modem Woodcuts
I. Lu Xun and the Modem Woodcut Movement
1. Background of the Times
2. Why Lu Xim Advocated the Modem Woodcut
3. How Lu Xun Fostered the Modem Woodcut
11. The Modem Woodcut Movement in Shanghai in the Thirties
III. Nationwide Modem Woodcut Movement in the Forties
1. Woodcut Movement in Liberated Areas
2. Woodcut Movement in Kuomintang Areas
IV. Development of Woodcut Prints After the Birth of New China
Afterword
List of Plates