Provides an introductory history of printmaking in the twentieth century. The development of this art form is illustrated in the present volume with over 170 reproductions, in color and black-and-white, of line engravings, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs by more than a hundred artists, including Gauguin, Munch, Picasso, Braque, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Kathe Kollwitz, Nolde, Miro, Jacques Villon, John Piper, Frank Martin, and many others. --front flap
Table of Contents: Part One: The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking -- The 1890 Generation -- The First World War -- Part Two: The Post-War Period -- From 1926 to the Slump -- The Slump, and the Declaration of War -- Part Three: From 1939 to the Present -- The New Print Making.
Includes bibliography and index.