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    English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950
    English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950
    English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950
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    English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950

    By Thomas Balston

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    "A wonderful look at the many styles of wood engraving from the time period 1900–1950. The illustrations are sublime, and there is a lot of variation both in theme, execution and style. I really enjoyed looking at the engravings, and the text was interesting and very readable." — Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System
    At the turn of the twentieth century the art of wood-engraving enjoyed a flourishing revival among English artists. These works were so fundamentally different from their predecessors, in both design and technique, that they formed a new branch of the art. This volume showcases five decades' worth of magnificent wood engravings in a series of finely wrought black-and-white and color images, selected from a wide array of sources that includes lesser-known works from temporary exhibitions and limited editions.
    An informative history of the art precedes the illustrations, tracing the development of wood-engraving from the art form's earliest days through its decline and resurgence of popularity. A chronological presentation of striking, intricately detailed images follows, featuring the works of such noted artists as Eric Gill, Iain Macnab, Eric Ravilious, John Nash, and Clare Leighton, in addition to scores of others. Ranging from vignettes of animals and rural life to street scenes, portraits, and episodes from literature, this survey offers a magnificent overview of the vibrant era in the art of wood-engraving.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateSep 14, 2015
    ISBN9780486808079
    English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950

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    • 5/5
      A wonderful book of exquisite wood engravings from some of England's finest artists of the last century.
      Showing an England sadly not around any more.
      I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Dover via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review.
    • 3/5
      This is a beautifully produced book, a reprint on good paper of a 1951 publication. The introduction is a brief and informative survey of developments in the first half of the 20th century, and this is followed by about 60 pages of wood engraving reproductions from a wide range of artists. very enjoyable.

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    English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950 - Thomas Balston

    ENGLISH

    WOOD-ENGRAVING

    1900-1950

    ERIC RAVILIOUS. Decorations for Kynoch Press, 1933

    GWENDOLEN RAVERAT. Silver Street, Cambridge, 1938

    ENGLISH

    WOOD-ENGRAVING

    1900-1950

    THOMAS BALSTON

    DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

    MINEOLA, NEW YORK

    ERIC GILL: A Garden enclosed

    Bibliographical Note

    This Dover edition, first published in 2015, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Art and Technics, Ltd., London, in 1951. This collection of wood-engravings, with Thomas Balston’s essay, was first published in November 1950 as a special issue (number 5) of the quarterly Image.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Balston, Thomas.

      English wood-engraving 1900–1950 / Thomas Balston.

         pages cm

      Includes bibliographical references.

      eISBN-13: 978-0-486-80807-9

        1. Wood-engraving, English. I. Title.

      NE1144.B34 2015

      761’.20942—dc23

    2015020475

    Manufactured in the United States by RR Donnelley

    79878X01 2015

    www.doverpublications.com

    INTRODUCTION

    FROM THE death of Bewick in 1828 till nearly the end of the nineteenth century, the art of original wood-engraving was dormant in England; all the skill of the craftsmen was employed on the reproduction of works of artists who had little or no interest in the medium. But the period covered by this book, 1900–1950, saw the rise of the now flourishing school of artist-craftsmen whose works are so fundamentally different in design and technique from anything which preceded them as to constitute a new branch of the art.

    Much of this work has appeared in books, and is now familiar to a host of readers, thousands of whom had the opportunity of appreciating its variety and beauty at the exhibition, Wood-Engraving in Modern English Books, held by the National Book League in the autumn of 1949. But that exhibition, as its title showed, could not include any of the immense number of independent wood-engravings made by British artists during this half-century. Such engravings are often the most characteristic and ambitious of an artist's works because he has complete freedom in choosing their subjects, their sizes and their colour, but, as they are generally published in small limited editions, and can seldom be seen except at temporary exhibitions, they are much less well-known to the public. In this book, therefore, though it covers both these branches of the art, the illustrations have been selected with some bias in favour of the less familiar class.

    Among the illustrations will be found eight examples of coloured wood-engraving, a branch of the

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