Author: Selborne, Joanna
Title: British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration, 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition
Description: New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 2001. Softcover. A glossy softcover book with white text down a very light gray spine. Pages: (25), 2-433. Illustrated in black-and-white. Contents are as follows: The Background -- Wood-Engraving and Wood-Engravers -- The Role of Illustration -- The English Tradition: Historical Background up to c.1900 -- Early English Woodcuts -- Thomas Bewick -- The Victorian Reproductive Engravers -- William Blake and Edward Calvert -- Joseph Crawhall, William Nicholson, and Edward Gordon Craig -- William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement -- The Vale Group: Charles Ricketts, Lucien Pissarro, and Thomas Sturge Moore -- British and Continental Illustration around 1900 -- Contemporary Influences on the Wood-Engraving Revival -- Pioneering Wood-Engravers, 1904-1920 -- Early Teaching: Sydney Lee, Noel Rooke, and the Central School of Arts and Crafts -- Eric Gill, David Jones, and the St Dominic's Press Illustrators: The Early Years -- Gwen Raverat: First Phase -- Modernist Trends -- Edward Wadsworth and Vorticism -- Robert Gibbings -- The Bloomsbury Group -- Paul and John Nash -- Edward Gordon Craig -- The Beginnings of Recognition -- The Society of Wood Engravers and the English Wood-Engraving Society -- Art School Teaching -- Champions of the Cause: Dealers, Collectors, Critics, and Writers -- Commercial Art: Illustrated Periodicals and Advertisements -- Publishing and Wood-Engraved Book Illustration -- The Typographical Renaissance -- Private Presses -- The Golden Cockerel Press -- The Gregynog Press -- The Nonesuch Press -- The Shakespeare Head Press -- Smaller Private Presses -- Commercial Publishers -- A Critical Analysis of British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration, 1920-1940 -- New Approaches to Wood-Engraving -- Bold Beginnings: Noel Rooke and his Early Pupils -- John Farleigh: Early Work -- The Painterly Style: Gwen Raverat's Later Work, Stephen Bone, C. T. Nightingale, and Alex Buckels -- The Hard-Edged Typographic Approach -- Robert Gibbings: Later Work -- Eric Gill: Later Work -- Followers of Eric Gill: Philip Hagreen, Thomas Derrick, and Mary Dudley Short -- The Expressive Approach -- David Jones: Later Work -- Paul Nash and his Influence at the Royal College of Art -- Douglas Percy Bliss -- Eric Ravilious -- Enid Marx, Helen Binyon, John O'Connor, and Geoffrey Wales -- Tirzah Garwood and Hester Sainsbury -- John Nash: Later Work -- Ethelbert White, Clifford Webb, Norman Janes, and Others -- The Grosvenor School of Modern Art: Iain Macnab and his Pupils -- The Sinuous Line: A Tonal Approach -- The Underwood School and its Followers -- Leon Underwood -- Blair Hughes-Stanton -- Gertrude Hermes -- John Farleigh: Late Work -- Late Golden Cockerel Press Illustrators: Lettice Sandford, John Buckland Wright, Mary Groom, and Dorothea Braby -- Two Innovative Illustrators of Nature and Rural Life -- Clare Leighton -- Agnes Miller Parker. VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker at the base of the spine. Crease down the center of the spine. Stamp on first page. Stamp on last page. Sticker and due date card on back inside cover.

Keywords: European Art ; British Wood Carvings ; ; General Art - European


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