woodcut
Americannoun
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a block of wood cut along the grain and with a design, illustration, etc, incised with a knife, from which prints are made
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a print from a woodcut
Etymology
Origin of woodcut
Vocabulary lists containing woodcut
Visual Arts - Introductory
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Visual Arts - High School
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Since we’re on the subject of LACMA: Times art critic Christopher Knight reports that, despite its dry-sounding name, “The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy” is “ground-breaking” and “lucidly organized.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2018
The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy Major exhibition of rare woodcuts, plus related drawings, engravings, and sculptures.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2018
Meantime the U.S. went ahead with innumerable adjustments to wartime living: Woodcut.
From Time Magazine Archive
Woodcut frontispiece, which is repeated in gilt on the upper side of the binding.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
Banbury Blocks, or in plain English, Engraved Woodcut Blocks, associated with the Local Chap Books, Toy Books, and other Histories, for which this quaint old Oxfordshire town is celebrated.
From Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature by Pearson, Edwin
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