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Woodcut
(redirected from Wood-block print)

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Woodcut
A block of wood with a letter or image cut into it. Woodcuts were used as an early way to print materials in large quantities. They developed in Asia.


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According to David Acton's essay published in Gustave Baumann: Nearer to Art (Museum of New Mexico Press, 1993) Baumann's wood-block print of Bandelier's Ceremonial Cave broke from the style of his earlier works: "The scene looks out from the cool, shaded cave entrance into glaring sunlight.
A wood-block print made from a Victorian watercolour - which itself was lost for a century - is the only evidence of what it looked like.
 
 
 
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