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Wordless
Books: The Original Graphic Novels. By David A.
Beronä. Introduction by Peter Kuper. Abrams, 2008. 256pp.
Hardcover: ISBN-10:
0810994690 // ISBN-13: 978-0810994690
Library of Congress: NE1095 .B47 2008 // Dewey: 769.9/041 22
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“Wordless books” were stories from the
early part of the twentieth century told in black and white woodcuts,
imaginatively authored without any text. Although woodcut novels have
their roots spreading back through the history of graphic arts,
including block books and playing cards, it was not until the early
part of the twentieth century that they were conceived and published.
Despite its short-lived popularity, the woodcut novel had an important
impact on the development of comic art, particularly contemporary
graphic novels with a focus on adult themes.
Scholar David A. Beronä examines the
history of these books and the art and influence of pioneers like Frans
Masereel, Lynd Ward, Otto Nückel, William Gropper, Milt Gross,
and Laurence Hyde (among others). The images are powerful and iconic,
and as relevant to the world today as they were when they were first
produced. Beronä places these artists in the context of their
time, and in the context of ours, creating a scholarly work of
important significance in the burgeoning field of comics and comics
history.
Speechless - by Peter Kuper
Historical background
Frans Masereel (1889-1972)
25 images de la passion d’un homme (1918)
Passionate journey (1919)
The sun (1919)
Story without words (1920)
The idea (1920)
The city (1925)
Das Werk (1928)
Lynd Ward (1905-1995)
God's man (1929)
Madman’s drum (1930)
Wild pilgrimage (1932)
Prelude to a million years (1933)
Song without words (1936)
Vertigo (1937)
Otto Nückel (1888-1955)
Destiny (1930)
Helena Bochor̆áková (1894-1980)
Childhood (1931)
William Gropper (1897-1977)
Alay-oop (1930)
Cartoon books
E.O. Plauen (1930-1944)
Vater und Sohn (1936)
Milt Gross (1895-1953)
He done her wrong (1930)
Myron Waldman (1908-2006)
Eve (1943)
István Szegedi Szüts (1892-1939)
My war (1931)
Giacomo Patri (1989-1978)
White Collar (1940)
Laurence Hyde (1947-1997)
Southern cross (1951)
Bibliographical references
Index
Reviews
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