Speaker: Dr. David Barker, researcher and author of numerous books, catalogues and glossaries of terms related to printmaking in China.
In his second talk David Barker outlines the emergence of the woodblock print as a creative art form in modern China in the 1930s and its continuing development in contemporary practice with reference to prints from the late 1990s and the new century. Illustrations will include works by artists and students from within the recent revival of pre-modern woodblock printing techniques and those where woodblock printing has been successfully combined with the imported techniques of screen printing and lithography.
David Barker is an Honorary Professor in the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou and in the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. He is Reader Emeritus, University of Ulster and a Senior Research Fellow, The Muban Educational Trust.
His research interest is in the history and technology of Chinese printmaking, and he has contributed to a number of books published by The British Library, The British Museum, The Muban Foundation and The China National Academy of Fine Arts. Among others, his book Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Chinese Printmaking was published by A&C Black in 2005 and A Chinese-English Glossary of Terms Relating to the History and Practice of Printmaking in China by the Heilongjiang Museum of Art in 2019.
Booking required, Maximum 15 people.
This talk is part of our series of events associated with our exhibition ‘Revolution, Propaganda, Art: Printmaking in Modern China’ in association with the Muban Educational Trust.
Image ©: Yellow Oranges on a Barkwood Dish – vol.vii-18 Seal of Kao Ya – Ten Bamboo Studio – 1633
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