Gods' Man
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1613470797 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 318 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Holley Lantz said A Spiritual Journey. A 19A Spiritual Journey A 1930 hard copy edition of God's Man has occupied a very special place in my family's heart and bookshelf for over 50 years. As a young child, I opened this book many times, sometimes moving quickly from woodcut to woodcut, pausing at my favorites and other times moving slowly through e. 0 hard copy edition of God's Man has occupied a very special place in my family's heart and bookshelf for over 50 years. As a young child, I opened this book many times, sometimes moving quickly from woodcut to woodcut, pausing at my favorites and other times moving slowly through e. wiredweird said Beautiful, if baffling. It is wonderful to have this book back in print after so many decades. This is a real achievement in visual storytelling, and helped blaze the trail for the modern graphic novel.The format is starkly simple: one woodcut image per page, black on white. Woodcut isn't a tonal process - grad. it's all about the apostrophe J. Perry This is an amazing wordless novel that somehow speaks volumes. I would just like to point out a mistake that many reviewers have made concerning this classic. Ward used little words in this work at least we should get the title right. The title is "Gods' Man" not "God's Man", this simple
This seems to give it an advantage over ways of working that start with an empty white area. In a sense, what is happening is already there in the darkness, and cutting the block involves letting only enough light into the field of vision to reveal what is going on The measuring stick, if anyone is making a list of what is or is not a pictorial narrative, is whether the communication of what is and what is happening is accomplished entirely or predominantly in visual terms It has always been a matter of some surprise to me that this process can go on for a considerable period and all take place silently. - excerpt from Storyteller Without Words - the Wood Engravings o
Each copy is signed by Moser.. The classic story-in-pictures by Lynd Ward is here presented in a cloth bound, slipcased edition with a new introduction by Barry Moser, photographs of the author, two long out of print essays by Ward, and miscellaneous ephermal material, presented the way the author intended