Taschen Art For All

TASCHEN Art For All by Tobias G. Natter, Max Hollein, Klaus Albrecht Schröder Hardcover, 24,6 x 37,2 cm, 416 pages. At the turn of the 20th century, amid the domed grandeur of Vienna, a group of Secession artists reclaimed the humble woodblock. The gesture, though short-lived, and long overlooked by established art histories, may be seen as a decisive social, as well as aesthetic, moment. Elevating a primarily illustrative, mass-production medium to the status of fine art, the woodblock revival set a formal precedent for Expressionism while democratizing an art for all.