book
- Museum number
- 1993,1011,0.1
- Title
- Object: 現代版畫; Xiandai banhua (Modern Prints (no. 8, May 1935))
- Description
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Printed book containing eighteen original woodcuts. Machine and hand printed. Woodblock print with oil-based ink on paper. Entitled.
- Production date
- 1935
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.60 centimetres (Closed book)
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Width: 19.40 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- The Modern Prints Society, formed in Guangzhou in 1934, was the most productive and longest lasting among the woodcut groups that sprang up across China in the 1930s. The first issue of Modern Prints appeared in December 1934. Altogether, 18 issues were published over a year and a half. With the exception of the first issue, 50 handmade copies were made of each one.
In spring 1935, Modern Prints dedicated two issues to ‘folk customs’. The idea was to bring an avowedly democratic art form to bear on the life of common people.
The cover image is titled Field Master (Tian shiye). Modern Prints documents the rapid changes and expansions by the woodcut group in its artistic conceptions and styles.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2010 May-Sep, BM, Dept of Asia, The Printed Image in China
2012 5th May -29th July, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘The Printed Image in China’
- Acquisition date
- 1993
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1993,1011,0.1