Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels, 1929-1937

Name: Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels, 1929-1937
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Lynd Wards Wordless Novels, 1929-1937Visual Narrative, Cultural Politics, Homoeroticism\nAuthor(s): Grant F. Scott\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032211169, 978-1032211169\nSynopsis\nThis book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the \""wordless novels\"" of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward [tel], who has been enormously influential in the development of the contemporary graphic novel. The study examines his six pictorial novels, each part of an evolving experiment in a new form of visual narrative that offers a keen intervention in the cultural and sexual politics of the 1930s. The novels form a discrete group much like Beethovens piano sonatas or Keatss great odes in which Ward evolves a unique modernist style (cinematic, expressionist, futurist, realist, documentary) and grapples with significant cultural and political ideas in a moment when the American experiment and capitalism i.