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Graven Images - The Art of the Woodcut (Hardcover)
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Graven Images - The Art of the Woodcut (Hardcover)
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List price R408
Loot Price R335
Discovery Miles 3 350
You Save R73 (18%)
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The invention of the printing press led to an explosion of cheap
printed materials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Ballads were no longer confined to the soapbox. Mass communication
was now possible. The broadsides pasted on walls and disseminated
among the masses, together with the written ballads hawked at
street corners, represented the zeitgeist of popular culture in
early modern Europe. Frequently designed in 'blackletter' gothic
type and accompanied with distinctive woodcut illustrations, this
dynamic, lively form encompassed the obsessions and characteristic
humour of the times. This beautifully designed book with a foreword
by Reece Shearsmith highlights some of the most striking and
amusing examples from the British Library's collections and
provides brief commentary on the political and social background of
the times. Frequent topics of illustration include monsters,
witches, criminals, drinking, war and politics.
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