Word: woodcut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week's cover is a woodcut-TIME'S first in that medium. For Japanese Printmaker Kiyoshi Saito, however, it is not his first appearance in the magazine. His work should be familiar to many TIME readers; as long ago as 1951, we introduced the then-unknown Saito in the Art section and reproduced in color his now-famous woodcut...
Today, the bold style and clean line of Japan's foremost woodcut artist can be seen in major museums the world over. Among his early collectors was an American naval officer named Jerry Schecter, who was based in Kobe in 1957 and returned to Japan in 1964 as TIME-LIFE bureau chief in Tokyo. Schecter filed the bulk of the reporting for this week's cover to Writer Robert Jones and Senior Editor Edward Jamieson. Schecter also led the search for a Japanese artist to portray Japan's Premier...
...general, the best I have seen in any Advocate and several pieces of the art-work in particular. Freshman Terry Furchgott's cover Pegasus gives the winged-horse intriguing stylized pectoral muscles, and a mane that looks more like the tresses of Beardsley maidens. John Lithgow's angel woodcut is the most beautiful piece of art I have seen him create. Another smaller woodcut of three musicians appears later, and though not credited, looks like Lithgow's work...
Under this later woodcut appear the enigmatic words: "BLAKE KNEW...
...budget of $300 a year, Rosenberg has assembled an unsurpassed teaching collection of modern prints since his appointment as a Fogg curator in 1939. All of the works in the show? two-thirds of which were acquired over the years by Rosenberg? have increased tenfold in value. A Kirchner woodcut bought in 1945 for $90 is now worth $2,000. Klee's 1923 lithograph, Tight rope Walker, cost him $40, and now would command 15 times the price...