At a loss for words -- God's Man, Lynd Ward and more...
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Silent Pictures
Version 1 -- Paris Review: Art Spiegelman on Lynd Ward
Version 2 -- Vulture: Art Spiegelman on Forgotten Comics Pioneer Lynd Ward
From Jan-Peter Semmel's Pinterest: Art by Lynd Ward
and....
From Shrine of Dreams: Silent Dreams
Lynd Ward's roots:
Symposium: Frans Masereel
Fran Masereel's The City (1925): A Timeless Novel In Woodcuts
Caught by the River: The Gift of All Travel Frank Masreel's Passionate Journey
Two from the Anarchist Library:
Frans Masreel's The Idea
Frans Masreel's The City
Obligatory SLYT: God's Man by Lynd Ward by Pipe Choir
And from 217 Films: Excerpt from the film 'O Brother Man, the Art and Life of Lynd Ward'
See also A Feeling for Wood Itself: Lynd Ward's Arboreal Modernism
Wordlessness in the 21st Century: Silent Story: Eric Drooker
And here is Speechless by Mefi's own peacay from his BibliOdyssey...
And then, too, there is the encyclopedic John Coulthart's Feuilleton Illustrators Archive
Version 1 -- Paris Review: Art Spiegelman on Lynd Ward
Version 2 -- Vulture: Art Spiegelman on Forgotten Comics Pioneer Lynd Ward
From Jan-Peter Semmel's Pinterest: Art by Lynd Ward
and....
From Shrine of Dreams: Silent Dreams
Lynd Ward's roots:
Symposium: Frans Masereel
Fran Masereel's The City (1925): A Timeless Novel In Woodcuts
Caught by the River: The Gift of All Travel Frank Masreel's Passionate Journey
Two from the Anarchist Library:
Frans Masreel's The Idea
Frans Masreel's The City
Obligatory SLYT: God's Man by Lynd Ward by Pipe Choir
And from 217 Films: Excerpt from the film 'O Brother Man, the Art and Life of Lynd Ward'
See also A Feeling for Wood Itself: Lynd Ward's Arboreal Modernism
Wordlessness in the 21st Century: Silent Story: Eric Drooker
And here is Speechless by Mefi's own peacay from his BibliOdyssey...
And then, too, there is the encyclopedic John Coulthart's Feuilleton Illustrators Archive
Fantastic post & links. Thank you for this.
My college library's rare books collection had a Lynd Ward book so I was lucky enough to see some of his work comparatively early - within a year or two of reading Maus for the first time, lucky coincidence. I love the intricacy in woodblock prints. When I look at them I have trouble imagining how a human hand can make such tiny precise movements as to carve those lines out of wood.
posted by Pickman's Next Top Model at 7:51 PM on January 22, 2022
My college library's rare books collection had a Lynd Ward book so I was lucky enough to see some of his work comparatively early - within a year or two of reading Maus for the first time, lucky coincidence. I love the intricacy in woodblock prints. When I look at them I have trouble imagining how a human hand can make such tiny precise movements as to carve those lines out of wood.
posted by Pickman's Next Top Model at 7:51 PM on January 22, 2022
I wonder if Ward was inspired by William Blake's art as well. It has a similar raw, totemic iconology, though more monochrome.
I also wonder if Frank Miller is familiar with Lynd Ward. It would definitely explain a lot of the art choices.
posted by LeRoienJaune at 8:30 PM on January 22, 2022 [2 favorites]
I also wonder if Frank Miller is familiar with Lynd Ward. It would definitely explain a lot of the art choices.
posted by LeRoienJaune at 8:30 PM on January 22, 2022 [2 favorites]
When I look at them I have trouble imagining how a human hand can make such tiny precise movements as to carve those lines out of wood.
Practice, practice, and more practice. From 04:45 to 05:30 in the Vimeo trailer (cited above by y2karl) for 217 Films “O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward”, you can see Ward working on blocks for his 1937 'wordless novel' Vertigo (WP). He wields a razor-sharp chisel with the skill and confidence of an Olympic fencer.
There's an online exhibit and discussion of scans taken from Ward's original Vertigo woodblocks at Rutgers University Libraries > Digital Exhibits > Vertigo, by Lynd Ward: An Exhibition.
posted by cenoxo at 10:54 PM on January 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
Practice, practice, and more practice. From 04:45 to 05:30 in the Vimeo trailer (cited above by y2karl) for 217 Films “O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward”, you can see Ward working on blocks for his 1937 'wordless novel' Vertigo (WP). He wields a razor-sharp chisel with the skill and confidence of an Olympic fencer.
There's an online exhibit and discussion of scans taken from Ward's original Vertigo woodblocks at Rutgers University Libraries > Digital Exhibits > Vertigo, by Lynd Ward: An Exhibition.
posted by cenoxo at 10:54 PM on January 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
my introduction to him was his illustrations of Marguerite Henry's Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio
posted by brujita at 11:04 PM on January 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by brujita at 11:04 PM on January 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
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