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Lynd Ward: Prelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words, Vertigo (LOA #211) (Library of America Lynd Ward Edition),New
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The second volume of collected woodcut graphic novels from a brilliant and iconoclastic author who has been compared to Frank Capra and John Steinbeck (Jonathan Lethem, New York Timesbestselling author of The Fortress of Solitude)In this, the second of two volumes collecting all his woodcut novels, The Library of America brings together Lynd Wards three later books, two of them brief, the visual equivalent of chamber music, the other his longest, a symphony in three movements. Prelude to a Million Years (1933) is a dark meditation on art, inspiration, and the disparity between the ideal and the real. Song Without Words (1936), a protest against the rise of European fascism, asks if ours is a world still fit for the human soul. Vertigo (1937), Wards 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, and an elderly business magnate whomovingly, and without ever becoming a political caricatureembodies the social forces determining their fate.The images reproduced in this volume are taken from prints pulled from the original woodblocks or firstgeneration electrotypes. Wards novels are presented, for the first time since the 1930s, in the format that the artist intended, one image per righthand page, and are followed by four essays in which he discusses the technical challenges of his craft. Art Spiegelman contributes an introductory essay, Reading Pictures, that defines Wards towering achievement in that most demanding of graphicstory forms, the wordless novel in woodcuts.
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