A second, and equally engaging exhibition at The Clark, No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts, traces her groundbreaking work in
woodblock printing back to 1973, when Frankenthaler made her first woodcuts.
Not exact matches
Drawing on a tradition of
printed prayer books and literary texts that stretches
back over centuries, she has woven streams of paper cut from a
woodblock -
printed book into five separate three - dimensional scrolls.
The Japanese
woodblock print dates
back to the...
This example of shunga (a genre of erotic
woodblock prints dating
back to the 9th Century) is significant not only for its shocking metaphor of victory in war --- it makes plain the sexual dimension of conquest --- but also that it signaled Japan's own imperial desires.