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The City: A Vision in Woodcuts (Dover Books on Art, Art History)

2 reviews
Frans Masereel

Dover Publications, 2006

Fascinating snapshot in time
Masereel's work, as one of Will Eisner's inspirations, is an ancestor of the modern graphic novel. That historical insight is a freebie, though. Reading this slim book offers many rewards of much more direct sorts. It's not a graphic novel itself, no matter what some have said about it. Instead of a novel's narrative coherence, this presents a sequence of still images. They relate to each ...

The Sun: A Novel Told in 63 Woodcuts

3 reviews
Frans Masereel

Shambhala, 2000

Something different but brilliant
If a novel told entirely in woodcuts seems somehow simple, Franz Masreel's work will set you on the right track. Each cut holds endless stories while still allowing a single story to be told. One must see Masreel's work to appreciate it but consider this: if, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, then this is a 63,000 word novel - and you can read in 15 minutes! After which you ...

Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts

7 reviews
Frans Masereel

Dover Publications, 2007

A beautiful biography --
-- or is it? Masereel's remarkable little book declines to explain itself. These 165 expressive woodcuts present snapshots from the life of one man, or so we assume. He's not all that special - he's not a great hero, leader, or lover, though he's each at one point or another. He doesn't rise above or sink below anyone else, except in the usual ways. As with Copland's "Fanfare for the Common ...

Story Without Words
Frans Masereel, Hermann Hesse

Turtle Point Press, 2002

Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde

2 reviews
Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, ...

Firefly Books, 2007

What relief
These four graphic novels cover a range of relief printmaking techniques: woodcut, linocut, and wood engraving. They cover a range of styles, as well: Masereel's Expressionism, Ward's delicate linework on bold figures, Patri's crisp realism, Hyde's detailed primitivism. And, although they cover very different eras and stories, they all end in pessimism about people's treatement of people. ...

The Idea and Story Without Words

1 review
Frans Masereel

Shambhala, 2000

Two beautiful books in one
They're very similar in many ways. Both stories are told entirely in images, black and white with no middle tones, one per page. They're angular and expressive, conveying conveying many shades of feeling despite and because of the blunt imagery. And they both cover the range from elation to despair. "The Idea" will speak loudly to anyone who makes their living with their creativity. The idea, ...

Landscapes & Voices

1 review
Frans Masereel

Schocken, 1988

A cryptic journey
Like Masereel's other wordless books, this doesn't so much narrate a linear story as illustrate it with loosely connected snapshots. I'm not wholly sure the snapshots are in order, but I'm not sure that it really matters. Each page frames a single woodcut, printed in dense blacks on heavy, glare-free paper. Continuity between images comes from the reader's own imagination, and the wordless ...

Polity (The Journal Of The Northeastern Political Science Association, (Vol. VII, No. 1 Fall 1974)(Vol. VII, ...

Northeastern Political Science, 1974

Polity (The Journal Of The Northeastern Political Science Association, (Vol. VII, No. 1 Fall 1974)(Vol. VII, No. 2 Winter 1974)(Vol. VII, No. 4 Summer 1975)(Vol. VIII, No. 1 Fall 1975)(Vol. VIII, No. 2 Winter 1975)(Vol. VIII, No. 3 Spring 1976)(Vol. VIII, No.4 Summer 1976)(Vol. IX, No. 1 Fall 1976)(Vol. IX, No. 2 Winter 1976)(Vol. IX, No. 3 Spring 1977). 10 issues all together with some really great cover art. Articles from many different ...