Here is the blurb from the dust jacket:
In 1910 some small planks of wood with carvings on them were found on Tahiti -- they proved to be the work of Paul Gauguin. No art dealer was Interested In them at that time, though, as it happened some prints were made. The blocks themselves, cut from soft wood, such as the boards from crates, showed signs of age, a number of them being cracked warped or damaged by insects. Only occasionally had the artist used hard wood cut across the grain.
An experiment was made In 1961 to -obtain.new copies of the whole set This was done mainly for documentation purposes as, in one or two cases, the wood had deteriorated to such an extent it would soon have become impossible to take prints from them. The need to do this was further emphasised by the fact that only a very few of, the original artist's print's had survived.
This book presents to the reader eleven of the original blocks, three of which are carved on both sides. With the exception of two fragments they were made during Gauguin's second period In Tahiti and La Dominique, between 1895 and 1903. His concept of woodcuts makes strong demands on the printer who Is given great. freedom during the actual printing process resulting in each print emerging as a separate work of art.
Although the blocks have along way to go towards technical perfection, the author shows in his story of their discovery and, of the printing experiment that they are not only small masterpieces of Gauguin's art but that, In fact, they pointed the way to far-reaching developments in the field of graphic art technique.
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