торцовая гравюра

18:00 Feb 16, 2024
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Wood engraving
Russian term or phrase: торцовая гравюра
The reason I'm not ready to go with "wood engraving" or "engraving" is the context, which comes from a recording of an interview. The subject is discussing the legacy of Vladimir Favorsky:

"И [он] возродил торцовую гравюру. Где на этой стороне доски режут. Глиняная доска, вот на этой стороне. Это английская традиция торцовой гравюры. оттуда вышло очень много теорий и структуралистских идей о теории книги, иллюстрации."

Unfortunately, we can't see the subjects hands, what she is referring to "на этой стороне" is unclear. But the material also seems to include a clay tablet [?].

The transcription here was done by a human, so should be pretty reliable.
Ethan Bien
United States
Local time: 12:44


Summary of answers provided
3end engraving
Oleg Lozinskiy
3woodcuts/wood engraving
Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.


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end engraving


Explanation:
Woodcut

One of the oldest techniques is xylography - an engraving made on wood. Already in the 8th century A.D. e. in the East received high-quality prints from processed wooden surfaces, and from the XIV century a similar technique began to be used in Europe. This type of woodcut was called edged, it was performed on a longitudinal cut of soft wood, usually a pear, with a chisel and a knife. Due to the resistance of the wood fibers, the process was long and laborious. In the 18th century, the English engraver Thomas Bewick invented the end engraving method, performed on cross sections of hardwood with a special cutter. This type of engraving quickly gained popularity, as it made it possible to obtain thin and clear lines, the necessary depth and smooth transitions between dark and light areas.

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Note added at 1 час (2024-02-16 19:26:02 GMT)
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Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author.
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Technique
Main article: Wood engraving

Bewick's art is considered the pinnacle of his medium, now called wood engraving. This is due both to his skill and to the method, which unlike the woodcut technique of his predecessors, carves against the grain, in hard box wood, using fine tools normally favoured by metal engravers.[33]

Boxwood cut across the end-grain is hard enough for fine engraving, allowing greater detail than in normal woodcuts; this has largely replaced the basic woodcut since Bewick's time.[34] In addition, since wood engraving is a relief printing technique, inked on the face, it requires only low pressure to print an image, so the blocks last for many thousands of prints, and importantly can be assembled into the same forme as the letterpress or metal type for the text, allowing both on the same page, and all the printing to be done in a single run. In contrast, copper plate engravings are an intaglio printing technique, inked in the engraved grooves, the face being wiped clean of ink before printing, so a special type of printing press applying much higher pressure is required, and images must be printed separately from the text, at far greater expense.[35]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bewick

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Note added at 2 час (2024-02-16 20:37:15 GMT)
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После дополнительных поисков в сети я бы назвал этот метод end-grain wood engraving.

Например:
...end-grain wood engraving was standard practice in England from about 1700. Bewick merely continued and refined...
https://www.google.ru/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

См. также: https://www.google.ru/search?q="end-grain wood engraving"&ne...

Oleg Lozinskiy
Russian Federation
Local time: 19:44
Meets criteria
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 16
Notes to answerer
Asker: This seems very promising, thank you. In response to Boris, I would say that end-grain should be somewhere in here, to differentiate from regular wood engraving.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Boris Shapiro: I wouldn't trust the first .ru source with its literal 'end engraving' much. Especially given the fact that Wiki gives a much more idiomatic 'wood engraving'.
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woodcuts/wood engraving


Explanation:
. Soviet graphic Vladimir Favorsky – master of portrait woodcuts and book illustrations, designer, painter, muralist, teacher and theorist of fine arts, professor. Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1957), Academician (1962), People’s Artist of the USSR (1963), winner of the Lenin Prize (1962).
https://soviet-art.ru/soviet-graphic-artist-vladimir-favorsk...

Vladimir Favorsky (Russian, 1886–1964). Medium: Wood engraving. Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 5/16 inches (21 × 16 cm).
https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/233131

Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
Local time: 12:44
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 20
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