About the Author

Ll Hua, a native of Panyu County,

Guangdong Province, was bom in 1907.

In 1926 he graduated from the

Guangzhou Institute of Art and began to teach

there. Since 1934 he has been engaged in the

modem woodcut movement. He was president

of the AH-China Woodcutters Association;

organized the Modem Block Print Association in

Guangzhou; edited a series on the modem block

print. After the founding of New China in 1949

he became a professor at the Central Academy

of Fine Arts and dean of the woodcut

department, a member of the Chinese Federation

of Writers and Artists, a standing committee

member of the Chinese Artists' Union, chairman

of the Chinese Woodcutters' Union, and

editor-in-chief of the joumal Block Print. For a

long time he has been teaching and researching

art theory. His woodcuts have been repeatedly

exhibited at home and abroad. Selected works

have been published. Significant works are

Selected Woodcuts of Li Hua, Twenty Lectures on the

Laws ofArtistic Creation, and Free Talk on the Realm

of Art.

PROFESSOR Ij Hua, chairman of the Chinese

Woodcutters' Union, is one of the

tounders of the modem Chinese woodcut

movement. For more than half a cenhury he has

been working as an artist and a teacher. He is

a most accomplished woodcutter and also a

collector and researcher of andent Chinese

woodcuts. With (full and accurate historical data

and a penebating and original point of view, his

Chinese Woodcuts describes, in two parts, the

development of the art from andent to modem

times. Representative works of all epochs have

been colleded for this book. It is a profound

study of both the theory and practice of the art

of the woodcut.