Foreword by peter a wick (2 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 1st. 32, [9] pages, illustrations, portraits; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Size: 4to. Collectible.

First Edition. The definitive catalogue raisonné of Jacques Hnizdovsky's woodcuts from 1944 to 1975, documenting editions, dimensions, and exhibition history. An essential reference for collectors of Ukrainian émigré art and 20th-century American printmaking. Hnizdovsky (1915-1985), a Ukrainian-born American master of the woodcut, is renowned for his stylized depictions of animals and botanical subjects. Quarto (approx. 9.5 x 12 in.). Publisher's red cloth, in original illustrated dust jacket. 165 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white with full-page reproductions of woodcuts; includes foreword, autobiographical essay, biographical note, and index to prints. Printed on quality stock. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Light shelf wear to jacket with minor edge rubbing. The book itself is clean and tight; the interior is bright and unmarked aside from the inscription. Warmly inscribed in Ukrainian and dated July 1978, to Assya Humesky (Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan): ["For dear Mrs. Humesky, with thanks for the lecture for the students of the Summer School of Ukrainian Studies. Harvard - July, 1978."].…