Linocuts: A History by Ravilious, Ella

Linocuts: A History

Easier to work with and cheaper than wood, linocut has long enabled artists to create affordable and...
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Author: Ella Ravilious
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Linocuts: A History by Ravilious, Ella

Linocuts: A History

$60.00

Linocuts: A History

$60.00
Author: Ella Ravilious
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Easier to work with and cheaper than wood, linocut has long enabled artists to create affordable and versatile color prints. This beautifully illustrated book explores the origins of linocuts and presents key proponents of the printmaking technique, from Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews, Edward Bawden, and Cyril Power to modern and contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso, Leopoldo Méndez, Tayo Quaye, and Grayson Perry, among others. An accessible and eye-catching introduction to the distinctive aesthetics of linocut, it will appeal to those with a love of modern and contemporary art as well as practicing artists everywhere.

Following Screenprints, this second volume in the V&A's printmaking series offers a comprehensive history of linocut, from its emergence in the first decade of the twentieth century and its adoption by experimental modernist artists through to its establishment as a distinct and adaptable contemporary medium. The book celebrates high points of the practice, including the artists associated with the Grosvenor School during the 1920s and 1930s, the Great Bardfield community and, later, the Osogbo School in Nigeria. It also considers the global spread of linocut, and the evolution of new techniques and conversations in the current century, as exemplified by works from artists such as Khaleb Brooks and Thomas Kilpper. Examples are drawn from the extensive collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, with a contextual and historical introduction followed by a series of thematic chapters.



Author: Ella Ravilious
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 10/13/2026
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 10.30h x 8.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780500480908


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/17/2026

About the Author
Ravilious, Ella: - Ella Ravilious is curator: architecture and design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She is the daughter of photographer James Ravilious and the granddaughter of artist Eric Ravilious. Her book Eric Ravilious: Landscapes & Nature was published in association with the V&A in the fall of 2023.Saunders, Gill: - Gill Saunders is honorary senior research fellow at the V&A Research Institute, London. She is the author of Screenprints: A History and Edward Bawden's England, and coauthor, with Margaret Timmers, of The Poster: A Visual History.

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