{"id":2237,"date":"2007-08-11T01:14:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T00:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2012-03-28T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T20:06:20","slug":"gods-man-by-lynd-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/11\/gods-man-by-lynd-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Gods&#8217; Man by Lynd Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/vts\/aoi\/w\/ward\/md.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ward1.jpg\" alt=\"ward1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never tried woodcut engaving\u2014the closest was scraperboard and some linocuts when I was a teenager\u2014but I&#8217;ve always admired the form and Lynd Ward (1905\u20131985) was one of its masters. Ward&#8217;s wordless \u201cnovels\u201d were inspired by the similar work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/VTS\/g\/gn\/m.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Frans Masereel<\/a> and you can see pages from two of these, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/vts\/aoi\/w\/ward\/md.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Gods&#8217; Man<\/em><\/a> (1930) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/vts\/aoi\/w\/ward\/gm.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Madman&#8217;s Drum<\/em><\/a> (1930) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/vts\/index2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Visual Telling of Stories<\/a>. Ward&#8217;s work is frequently referred to as an inspiration by later illustrators, and comic artists especially have responded to these pictorial narratives. Woodcut illustration had a resurgence of popularity before and after the Second World War; most of <a href=\"http:\/\/aixa.ugr.es\/escher\/table.html\" target=\"_blank\">MC Escher<\/a>&#8216;s early work is woodcut engraving, for instance. There are still a few contemporary practitioners, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agraphia.uk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clifford Harper<\/a> being one of the most visible in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpib.com\/lyndward.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bud Plant&#8217;s Lynd Ward page<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaverpond.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Lynd Ward site with examples from other books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/vts\/aoi\/w\/ward\/md.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ward2.jpg\" alt=\"ward2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/vts\/aoi\/w\/ward\/md.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ward3.jpg\" alt=\"ward3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\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><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never tried woodcut engaving\u2014the closest was scraperboard and some linocuts when I was a teenager\u2014but I&#8217;ve always admired the form and Lynd Ward (1905\u20131985) was one of its masters. Ward&#8217;s wordless \u201cnovels\u201d were inspired by the similar work of Frans Masereel and you can see pages from two of these, Gods&#8217; Man (1930) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/11\/gods-man-by-lynd-ward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gods&#8217; Man by Lynd Ward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[2,30,42,9,48],"tags":[7044,1709,216],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-comics","category-illustrators","tag-frans-masereel","tag-lynd-ward","tag-mc-escher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-A5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","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=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}