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Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts Линд Уорд
ISBN: 9781598530827 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Library of America Язык: Английский From the eve of the Great Depression to the start of World War II, Lynd Ward (1905 1985) observed the troubled American scene through the double lens of a politically committed storyteller and a visionary graphic artist. His mediumthe wordless "novel in woodcuts"was his alone, and he quickly brought it from bold iconographic infancy to subtle and still unrivalled mastery.
Gods' Man (1929), the audaciously ambitious work that made Ward's reputation, is a modern morality play, an allegory of the deadly bargain a striving young artist often makes with life. Madman's Drum (1930), a multigenerational saga worthy of Faulkner, traces the legacy of violence haunting a family whose stock in trade is human souls. Wild Pilgrimage (1932), perhaps the most accomplished of these early books, is a study in the brutalization of an American factory worker whose heart can still respond to beauty but whose mind is twisted in rage against the system and its shackles.
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 fianc -
Mad Man's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts Линд Уорд
ISBN: 0486445003 Год издания: 2005 Язык: Русский The powerful imagery and psychological intensity of Ward's wordless works have elicited comparisons to the writings of Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, and they continue to influence modern graphic novelists such as Frank Miller. This 1930 -
Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts Линд Уорд
ISBN: 0486435008 Год издания: 2004 Язык: Русский The major American artist invented the concept of a wordless novel with this evocative, text-free "woodcut" narrative. Autobiographical in nature, the novel recounts Ward's struggles with his craft and with life in the 1920s. The intricate -
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge Линд Уорд, Hildegarde H. Swift
ISBN: 978-0152045715 Год издания: 2002 Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Язык: Английский -
The Silver Pony Линд Уорд
ISBN: 0395643775 Год издания: 1992 Язык: Английский Told only in pictures, this is the story of a lonely farm boy who confuses his dreams of adventure on a winged pony with reality. -
The Biggest Bear Линд Уорд
ISBN: 978-0395148068 Год издания: 1952 Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Johnny Orchard brings home a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the neighbors.