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Tag Archives: woodcuts
Tales for the Season
Illustrations from Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. With an Introduction By Hervey Allen and Wood Engravings By Fritz Eichenberg. New York: Random House, 1944.
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Tagged book illustration, Edgar Allan Poe, woodcuts
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Time for Caturday
Leon Underwood (1890-1975), The Siamese Cat (New York: Brentanos, 1928). Woodcut illustrations by the author. Underwood was a British born sculptor, engraver, painter and author who moved to New York City in the 1920s.
Posted in Art, Books
Tagged book illustration, Leon Underwood, woodblock printing, woodcuts
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Wordless Novel (no fooling)
To follow-up on my recent post about Lynd Ward’s wordless novels, I would like to introduce the German wordless novel, Die Sonne (the Sun), created by Franz Masereel (1889-1972), and published originally in 1919. This copy was re-issued in 1926 by Kurt … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Books, Expressionism, Germany, Lynd Ward, woodcuts
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The Wordless Novel
Created by artist Lynd Ward, God’s Man is the first American wordless novel. Published in 1929 by Jonathon Cape and Harrison Smith in New York, the book is an example of the wordless novel, a narrative genre made of only … Continue reading
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Tagged Graphic Novels, Lynd Ward, novels, woodcuts
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