Imitating and Innovating: Book Design by Lu Jingren and His 10 Protoges

Identifier:FA.B116.2226

Dimensions:6.25 x 10 in.; 16 x 25 cm.

Creation dates:2016

published in association with: Jingren Art Design, Paju-si, Bookcity Culture Foundation

Subjects: Book design -- History -- Exhibitions., Coptic bindings

Description:Coptic binding with dust jacket that is embossed on cover with three designs. 365 pages. Colored pages throughout. Digitally printed.

"We would like to invite you, book lovers, to Imitating and Innovating: Exhibition of Lu Jingren's Book Design and his 10 Protoges, a special displace of the Paju Booksori Festival 2016. For the festival, one of major Asian book events, Paju Book City has arranged the rare occasion designated to Lu Jingren and his students, an unrivaled Chinese book artist with global fame who is believed to have brought new dimensions to modern Chinese book designs and nurtured numbers of influential persons in the area. The show, under the theme of Imitating and Innovating, will be held at Forest of Wisdom, a reading hall, exhibiting its outstanding contents and scale. More than 1,000 pieces of their works including formerly-used paintings, posters, and publications, introduces to you diverse perspectives on their deep and profound design worlds. The aesthetics and philosophy created by the Chinese master and his followers helps you explore the beauty of the world of books and characters and the spirit of books." -- p. 19, Imitating and Innovating: Book Design by Lu Jingren and His 10 Protoges