Title

Cutting edge: Modernist British printmaking.

Author

Gordon Samuel (editor).

Source

Gordon Samuel (editor). Cutting edge: Modernist British printmaking. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Details

London: Philip Wilson Publishers; Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2019

Publication date

2019

Physical description

pages: 191; illustrations (chiefly color); endnotes; index; dimensions: 28 x 24 cm.

ISBN

978-1-78130-078-7

Type

Exhibition catalogue

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Subject category

Australia, Art style: Grosvenor school linocuts

Abstract

"The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver, Iain McNab, in 1925. Situated in London's Pimlico district the school played a key role in the story of modern British printmaking between the wars. The Grosvenor School artists received critical acclaim in their time that continued until the late 1930s under the influence of Claude Flight who pioneered a revolutionary method of making the simple linocut to dynamic and colourful effect. Cyril Power, a lecturer in architecture at the school, and Sybil Andrews, the School Secretary, were two of Flight's star students. Whilst incorporating the avant-garde values of Cubism, Futurism and Vorticism, the Grosvenor School printmakers brought their own unique interpretation of the contemporary world to the medium of linocut in images that are strikingly familiar to this day and are included in the print collections of the world's major museums, including the British Museum, the MoMA New York and the Australian National Gallery."--Dust jacket.

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking," Dulwich Picture Gallery, 19 June - 8 September 2019"--Title page verso.

Includes four essays: Han Leaper, The printmakers of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art; Philip Vann, Pulsating rhythms: The radical achievement of Claude Flight and his printmaking pupils; Tracey Lock, Relaxing the line: The linocuts of the Australian artists Dorrit Black, Eveline Syme and Ethel Spowers; Gordon Samuel, The rise, demise and renaissance of the Grosvenor School linocuts.

Last Updated

23 Apr 2024