Masereel, lu, and the development of the woodcut picture book in china

Abstract

In his article "Masereel, Lu, and the Development of the Woodcut Picture Book in China" Tie Xiao situates Chinese "continuous pictorial narratives" (lianxu tuhua) by radical woodcut artists in the 1930s within a global exchange of the visual. Further, Xiao examines woodcut artists' efforts to develop an expressive form of mass-oriented art through creative engagement with the Japanese creative print (hanga) movement and the woodcut novels by the Belgian graphic artist Frans Masereel. Xiao argues that central to self-produced woodcut pictorial narratives is the dilemma between the intimate and private impulse of self-expression and the desired immediacy and accessibility of form. © Purdue University.