Konstfacks bibliotek

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*24510$aSix novels in woodcuts /$cLynd Ward ; edited by Art Spiegelman
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*4901 $aThe Library of America ;$v210-211
*500  $aSix wordless woodcut novels by Lynd Ward. Art Spiegelman's essay "Reading pictures" is printed as an introduction to both volumes.
*500  $aTitle from case in which the two volumes are enclosed.
*500  $a"From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless 'novel in woodcuts,' was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from bold iconic infancy to a still unrivaled richness of drama, characterization, imagery, and technique"--Dust jacket flap.
*500  $aVol. 1: God's Man -- Madman's Drum -- Wild Pilgrimage ; Vol. 2: Prelude to A Million Years -- Song Without Words -- Vertigo
*504  $aIncludes bibliographical references.
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The second volume of collected woodcut graphic novels from a "brilliant and iconoclastic" author who has been compared to Frank Capra and John Steinbeck (Jonathan Lethem, New York Times -bestselling author of TheFortress of Solitude )

In this, the second oftwo volumescollecting all his woodcut novels, The Library of America brings together Lynd Ward's three later books, two of them brief, the visual equivalent of chamber music, the other his longest, a symphony in three movements. Prelude to a Million Years (1933) is a dark meditation on art, inspiration, and the disparity between the ideal and the real. Song Without Words (1936), a protest against the rise of European fascism, asks if ours is a world still fit for the human soul. Vertigo (1937), Ward's undisputed masterpiece, is an epic novel on the theme of the individual caught in the downward spiral of a sinking American economy. Its characters include a young violinist, her luckless fiance, and an elderly business magnate who-movingly, and without ever becoming a political caricature-embodies the social forces determining their fate.

The images reproduced in this volume are taken from prints pulled from the original woodblocks or first-generation electrotypes. Ward's novels are presented, for the first time since the 1930s, in the format that the artist intended, one image per right-hand page, and are followed by four essays in which he discusses the technical challenges of his craft. Art Spiegelman contributes an introductory essay, "Reading Pictures," that defines Ward's towering achievement in that most demanding of graphic-story forms, the wordless novel in woodcuts.