Földvári Books

Modern Chinese Woodcuts

[Végvári, Lajos Dr.]; [Hrdlicka, Zdanek Dr.]

A forradalmi Kína fametszetei. [Woodcuts of the Revolutionary China.]

Praha: A Művészeti Alkotások N. V., 1950. With more than 80, mostly full page illustrations. First edition. Text in Hungarian. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. The gatherings are unstapled as customary for Czech books. 91, (5) p. Cover and a few pages slightly stained, overall in fine condition.

A broad collection of woodcuts by Chinese revolutionary artists.

With a short foreword about Chinese woodcut and woodblock printing, that is followed by the reproductions of the images, mostly with revolutionary themes by Xia Feng, Lu Xun, Li Hua, Wang Qi, Gu Yuan, etc.

Published to deepen the knowledge about the art and its history of China, and to propagate the friendship between the Communist countries of the Eastern Block and People's Republic of China.

Scarce, we could trace only 2 copies in institutional holdings, no copy in the US.

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Price: €500.00