Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937
Author | : Grant F. Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
ISBN-10 | : 1032268069 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781032268064 |
Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Download or read book Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937 written by Grant F. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the "wordless novels" of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905-1985), who has been enormously influential in the development of the contemporary graphic novel. The study examines his six pictorial novels, each part of an evolving experiment in a new form of visual narrative that offers a keen intervention in the cultural and sexual politics of the 1930s. The novels form a discrete group - much like Beethoven's piano sonatas or Keats's great odes - in which Ward evolves a unique modernist style (cinematic, expressionist, futurist, realist, documentary) and grapples with significant cultural and political ideas in a moment when the American experiment and capitalism itself hung in the balance. In testing the limits of a new narrative form, Ward's novels require a versatile critical framework as sensitive to German Expressionism and Weimar cinema as to labor politics and the new energies of proletarian homosexuality.