Idea and Story Without Words
by Masereel, FransFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-09-01
Publisher(s): Shambhala
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Summary
These two novels-without-words feature evocative woodcuts that encourage the reader's own imagination to create the story line. Created in the 1920s by the acclaimed wood-engraver Frans Masereel, this unique book contains two picture-novels in one. FlipThe Ideaupside down, and you can look throughStory Without Words.The images inThe Ideadepict the progress of an idea, in the mysterious form of a woman spirit, as it moves through the world.Story Without Wordsis a haunting love story rich with symbolism.
Author Biography
Frans Masereel (1889-1972) was a Belgian painter and wood engraver who illustrated books by Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola, and Leo Tolstoy. He was most widely known for his novels-without-words and for his antiwar woodcuts that appeared in magazines and newspapers in Europe in the early twentieth century.
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