Paul Coldwell: Ink Paper Chisel Grain, Gebunden

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'A fascinating account of the hidden history of the humble woodcut' SUNDAY TIMES Ink Paper Chisel Grain is a dazzling journey through 500 years of art, ideas and human imagination, told through one of the most enduring and versatile artistic mediums ever created.
At its simplest, a woodcut begins with a piece of wood, a cutting tool, ink and paper. Yet from these humble materials artists have created some of the most powerful images in human history. In *Ink Paper Chisel Grain,*artist and printmaker Paul Coldwell invites us into intimate encounters with the works and makers who transformed woodcut from a practical technology into a vehicle for beauty, revolution, protest and wonder.

Travelling across centuries and continents, Coldwell guides us from Albrecht Dürer's apocalyptic visions and Hokusai's Great Waveto Käthe Kollwitz's searing anti-war prints and the monumental contemporary works of William Kentridge. Along the way we meet artists, printers, collectors, curators and craftsmen; step inside museums, archives and studios; and discover how a simple process of cutting into wood helped shape the visual culture of the modern world.

Part history, part travelogue, part meditation on art and making , Ink Paper Chisel Grain reveals how woodcut has survived every technological revolution thrown at it, celebrating the enduring human impulse to leave a mark.