Look at Chinese life from the 16th to 19th centuries through depictions of elegant gardens, in a new exhibition of 48 rare woodblock prints at the Huntington Library. The exhibition includes ...

Nearly four centuries before Johannes Gutenberg produced the first Bible on a printing press ... then transferred the page to a wood block while the ink was still wet. Only then could the carver ...

For Wei Lizhong, nothing better reflects the ingenuity and resplendence of ancient Chinese civilisation than woodblock printing. “With a thousand-year history, printing is one of the four great ...

I fell in love with the art of block printing on a trip to India many years ago. My goal was to see the intricate process in person, but sadly a stomach bug prevented me from doing so. Thankfully ...

The woodblock print, or hanga, has played a centuries-long role in the history of Japanese art. The Edo-period masters, like Hokusai and Hiroshige, produced images that are familiar to people all ...

However, the history of printing begins long before Gutenberg's time. Nearly 600 years before Gutenberg, Chinese monks were setting ink to paper using a method known as block printing, in which ...

From hand-copied manuscripts to high-speed digital presses, printing has reshaped the world. This video traces the journey from woodblock printing to Gutenberg’s movable type and beyond ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art displays haunting, colorful woodblock prints Roger Catlin - Museums Correspondent Oiwa’s husband wanted to remarry his rich neighbor ...

A rare print of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” one of art history’s most iconic images ... saw artists mass-produce works on paper using woodblock printing. Experts are uncertain of how ...

Christie’s in New York sold Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa” for $2.8 million—a new record high for the 1830-32 woodblock print. Christie’s only ...