{"id":1467,"date":"2007-02-14T02:11:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2008-07-19T14:52:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:52:25","slug":"frans-masereels-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/14\/frans-masereels-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Frans Masereel&#8217;s city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/graphicwitness.org\/historic\/st.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/masereel_stadt.jpg\" alt=\"masereel_stadt.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pages from <em>Die Stadt<\/em> (1925), a \u201cnovel in woodcuts\u201d by anarchist artist Frans Masereel (1889\u20131972). See the other ninety-six pages <a href=\"http:\/\/graphicwitness.org\/historic\/st.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And by the same artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugpowder.com\/andy\/e.masereel.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Die Idee<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pacifist in World War I, he tried to make his art accessible to the ordinary man. His works were banned by the Nazis and widely distributed in Communist countries. But he rejected \u201cpolitical\u201d art and party affiliation, condemning all enslavements, oppression, war and violence, injustice, and the power of money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pages from Die Stadt (1925), a \u201cnovel in woodcuts\u201d by anarchist artist Frans Masereel (1889\u20131972). See the other ninety-six pages here. And by the same artist, Die Idee. A pacifist in World War I, he tried to make his art accessible to the ordinary man. His works were banned by the Nazis and widely distributed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/14\/frans-masereels-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frans Masereel&#8217;s city&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,30],"tags":[7044],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-black-white","tag-frans-masereel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-nF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}