Ink Paper Chisel Grain
- Author Paul Coldwell
- Narrator Paul Coldwell
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 20 August 2026
- Run Time 8 hours and 38 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Decorative arts, History of art, History: specific events and topics, Prints and printmaking, Traditional trades, crafts and skills.
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A dazzling journey through 500 years of art, ideas and human imagination, told through one of the most enduring and versatile artistic mediums ever created - the woodcut.
At its simplest, a woodcut begins with a piece of wood, a cutting tool, ink and paper. Yet from these humble materials artists have created some of the most powerful images in human history. In Ink Paper Chisel Grain, artist and printmaker Paul Coldwell invites us into intimate encounters with the works and makers who transformed woodcut from a practical technology into a vehicle for beauty, revolution, protest and wonder.
Travelling across centuries and continents, Coldwell guides us from Albrecht Dürer’s apocalyptic visions and Hokusai's Great Wave to Käthe Kollwitz's searing anti-war prints and the monumental contemporary works of William Kentridge. Along the way we meet artists, printers, collectors, curators and craftsmen; step inside museums, archives and studios; and discover how a simple process of cutting into wood helped shape the visual culture of the modern world.
Part history, part travelogue, part meditation on art and making, Ink Paper Chisel Grain reveals how woodcut has survived every technological revolution thrown at it, celebrating the enduring human impulse to leave a mark.
© Paul Coldwell 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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| Author | Paul Coldwell |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Paul Coldwell |
| Duration | 8 hours and 38 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781405975056 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Genre | Decorative arts, History of art, History: specific events and topics, Prints and printmaking, Traditional trades, crafts and skills |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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