ART IN PRINTING
ADDRESS TO SOCIETY "Printing and its Place in Art" wa\ the subject of an address given to the Auckland Society of Arts hv Mr. Gilbert Meadows last evening. Mr. Vernon Brown presided. The first printed book was published in China in B(3S A.D.. said Mr. Meadows, and was printed from wooden blocks. Its title was "The Diamond of Sutra" and it was a book of Buddhist scripture. Owing to the great multiplicity of Chinese characters, however, printing made no great development in China. Movable type was invented by Gotenlnirg in the loth century and gave the first real impetus to the printing of books. With the invention of lithography by Scnefeldcr in ] 79(5 printing advanced materially, but the development of art in printing was mainly due to the work of Bewick, Blake and Morris, who saw printing as a medium of expression rather than as a means of reproducing the work of others.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23488, 27 October 1939, Page 12
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