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Six Novels in Woodcuts

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From the eve of the Great Depression to the start of World War II, Lynd Ward observed the troubled American scene through the double lens of a politically committed storyteller and a visionary graphic artist. His medium—the wordless "novel in woodcuts"—was his alone, and he quickly brought it from bold iconographic infancy to subtle and still unrivalled mastery.
Gods' Man , 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 , a multigenerational saga worthy of Faulkner, traces the legacy of violence haunting a family whose stock in trade is human souls. Wild Pilgrimage , 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 is a dark meditation on art, inspiration, and the disparity between the ideal and the real. Song Without Words , a protest against the rise of European fascism, asks if ours is a world still fit for the human soul. Vertigo , 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

Language: English

Pages: 1408

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Library of America

Release: October 14, 2010

ISBN: 1598530828

ISBN 13: 9781598530827

Six Novels in Woodcuts

4.5/5 ( ratings)

From the eve of the Great Depression to the start of World War II, Lynd Ward observed the troubled American scene through the double lens of a politically committed storyteller and a visionary graphic artist. His medium—the wordless "novel in woodcuts"—was his alone, and he quickly brought it from bold iconographic infancy to subtle and still unrivalled mastery.
Gods' Man , 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 , a multigenerational saga worthy of Faulkner, traces the legacy of violence haunting a family whose stock in trade is human souls. Wild Pilgrimage , 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 is a dark meditation on art, inspiration, and the disparity between the ideal and the real. Song Without Words , a protest against the rise of European fascism, asks if ours is a world still fit for the human soul. Vertigo , 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

Language: English

Pages: 1408

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Library of America

Release: October 14, 2010

ISBN: 1598530828

ISBN 13: 9781598530827

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