Cutting edge : modernist British printmaking / [edited by Gordon Samuel].

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking," Dulwich Picture Gallery, 19 June - 8 September 2019"--Title page verso.

This exhibition was made possible through support from Michael Marks Charitable Trust.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Life in linocuts. The printmakers of the Grosvenor school of modern art / Hana Leaper -- The avant-garde -- Pulsating rhythms : The radical achievement of Claude Flight and his printmaking pupils / Philip Vann -- Urban living -- Relaxing the line : the linocuts of the Australian artists Dorrit Black, Eveline Syme and Ethel Spowers / Tracey Lock -- At work and at play -- A pastoral life -- The rise, demise and renaissance of the Grosvenor school linocuts / Gordon Samuel -- The sporting life -- On the move -- The Andrew-Power posters -- Photographs of the Grosvenor school artists.

"The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver, Iain McNab, in 1925. Situated in London's Pimlico district the school played a key role in the story of modern British printmaking between the wars. The Grosvenor School artists received critical acclaim in their time that continued until the late 1930s under the influence of Claude Flight who pioneered a revolutionary method of making the simple linocut to dynamic and colourful effect. Cyril Power, a lecturer in architecture at the school, and Sybil Andrews, the School Secretary, were two of Flight's star students. Whilst incorporating the avant-garde values of Cubism, Futurism and Vorticism, the Grosvenor School printmakers brought their own unique interpretation of the contemporary world to the medium of linocut in images that are strikingly familiar to this day and are included in the print collections of the world's major museums, including the British Museum, the MoMA New York and the Australian National Gallery."--Dust jacket.