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Woodcut
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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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Her demonstration of the simultaneous application of xylographic images (from a single carved block) and movable type offers a critical challenge to received notions of the fixity and mobility of print culture in this period.
The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England and ... by Calabresi, Bianca F.-C. / Renaissance Quarterly
Some of these works even engendered typeset or xylographic printing projects of their own (Chapter 10).
The Jesuits in China: a new perspective by Curto, Diogo Ramada / Portuguese Studies
Caveats aside, this is an absolutely invaluable publication, far, far more than a mere pictorial keepsake of a glorious display of the dawn of xylographic printmaking.
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their ... by Eisler, Colin / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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