Gods' Man

Gods' ManThe most important work of American artist and illustrator Lynd Ward, Gods' Man is a powerfully evocative novel, told entirely through woodcuts. Ward (190585), in employing the concept of the wordless pictorial narrative, acknowledged his predecessors the European artists Frans Masereel and Otto Nckel. Released the week of the 1929 stock market crash, Gods' Man was the first of six woodcut novels that Ward produced over the next eight years. It

curator of the Costume Collection at the Museum of the City of New York

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Dover's publishing relationship with Martin Davis

it becomes absorbing drama

Over thousands of years

with insiders' tips on techniques

black-and-white photos capture famous actors from 1926 to 1949 — Clark Gable

victorian woman

Culled from sculpture

"Six Pieces for Children" (c

flanked by mythological figures

the wide range of poses he illustrates