Word: woodcuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ller expects Australians to be less complicated than Europeans. Said he last week: "It will be necessary, I think, to speak to them in simple, sincere, readily understandable terms. All I will try to do is to put before them a picture, in solid, simple lines like a woodcut, of the nature of the extreme tests to which Christianity has been subjected in Germany for so many years. My aim is to get our story across, not just to an intellectual...
...week in Manhattan an art organization founded by rebels held one of the most conservative shows of the season. The occasion: the 52nd annual exhibition of the National Association of Women Artists. On view in spacious 57th Street galleries were art forms ranging from garden sculpture to decorative embroidery, woodcut print to oil painting. Most popular subjects: flowers, children, landscape views, sculptured nudes...
Abel Bowen's best, laid out in aid of a Philadelphia hair "manufactory" (wigs, transformations, etc.), was a woodcut of a forbidding female whose obviously enormous bust was well upholstered in yards of frills, and on whose head hair was heaped in a grotesque, kinky pile...
...column explained the use of an obsolete snow gauge (complete with woodcut...
...Human Body, printed in Basel just 400 years ago. This work visualized for the first time in history the true structure of the human form and was called by the late, great Sir William Osier "the greatest medical book ever written-from which modern medicine starts." For its woodcut pictures, the volume is of similar luster to artists and connoisseurs...