Browse: 10610 objects
- Reference URL
Actions
The Goose Detachment's Triumphant Return
-
Details
- Series
- Sino-Japanese War
- Associated place
- Date
-
designed 1965
printed 2005
- Artist/maker
-
Song Guangxun (born 1930) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
- Dimensions
- sheet 60 x 77 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2007.
- Accession no.
- EA2007.49
-
Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 43 on p. 52, illus. p. 52
Location
-
- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
-
Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
I like water-soluble ink printing techniques, not only because they embody a national characteristic, but also they require the properties of cutting tool, wood, and charm. There is not other printing technique that can create the effect of water infusing into ink.
Song Guangxun first studied art at the National Peking Art School in 1947. After graduating from the Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1951, he was appointed as editor of Xinhua Daily and Dazhong Pictorial in Chongqing. He has dedicated many years of his life to the Sichuan Artists’ Association as a professional printmaker. Most of Song’s early work adapted the socialist realist themes that predominated in Chinese art during the 1960s and 1970s. Since the late 1970s, most of his woodcuts are printed with water-soluble ink techniques and are more concerned with traditional Chinese aesthetics.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum