First edition of this study of the development of the modern woodcut, by the prolific art critic and editor.
Very good.
Price: $150.00
"There is in all earlier work a trait of aesthetic innocence, a confiding trust in the absoluteness of its ideals, be these personified by a thousand goblins or a single God, or found in ancient creeds or 'the new learning.' To-day all this is gone: lost–I think irretrievably–to the modern artist."
Heavily illustrated discussion of the woodcut, its technical development and aesthetic evolution in modern art. Plates cover a wide historical span, from block books of the 16th century through the work of Max Weber, Henry Fitch Taylor, Rockwell Kent, and Edvard Munch. The book includes a final technical chapter by Smith, demonstrator at the Slade School of Fine Arts, titled "Hints on the Practice of Xylography."
First printing. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, (1924). Full title: The modern woodcut: a study of the evolution of the craft by Herbert Furst ('Tis) with a chapter on the practice of xylography by W. Thomas Smith with over two hundred illustrations in black and white and sixteen plates in colour. 11'' x 9''. Original tan pictorial cloth, stamped in black. Black topstain, other edges uncut. Over 200 black and white illustrations, 16 color plates. 271, [1] pages. Evidence of bookplate removed from front pastedown. Front hinge starting. Some bumping to corners; a bit of soil to cloth.
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