Cutting edge : modernist British printmaking / with texts by Hana Leaper, Philip Vann, Tracey Lock and Gordon Samuel.

Contributor(s): Samuel, Gordon [writer of added commentary] | Vann, Philip [writer of added commentary] | Lock, Tracey [writer of added commentary] | Leaper, Hana [writer of added commentary] | Dulwich Picture Gallery [host institution].

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BookPublisher: London : Philip Wilson Publishers ; Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 178130078X (paperback); 9781781300787 (paperback).Subject(s): Grosvenor School of Modern Art

| Prints, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions

| Linoleum block-printing, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions

DDC classification: 769.941

Contents:

Director's foreword / Jennifer Scott -- Preface / Gordon Samuel -- Life in linocuts : the printmakers of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art / Hana Leaper -- Pulsating rhythms : the radical achievement of Claude Flight and his printmaking pupils / Philip Vann -- Relaxing the line : the linocuts of the Australian artists Dorrit Black, Eveline Syme and Ethel Spowers / Tracey Lock -- The rise, demise and renaissance of the Grosvenor School linocuts / Gordon Samuel -- The Andrew-Power posters.

Summary: "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.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

This new book which accompanies an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery illustrates over 120 linocuts, drawings and posters by Grosvenor School artists and its thematic layout focuses on the key components which made up their dynamic and rhythmic visual imagery. For the first time, three Australian printmakers, Dorrit Black, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme - who played a major part in the Grosvenor School story - are included in a major museum exhibition outside of Australia.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Gordon Samuel was previously Director/Partner at The Redfern Gallery and founded the Osborne Samuel Gallery with Peter Osborne in 2004. The gallery is one of London's leading specialists in Modern British painting and sculpture as well as specialising in twentieth century British prints and is the leading international dealer in the linocuts of the Grosvenor School.