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During the 1920s and 1930s the wordless novel – stories told in black-and-white wordless woodcuts – was established as a narrative genre. The genre was most popular in Germany, but was as well known in other parts of Europé and in the US. The wordless novel was characterized by the absence of words, the use of woodcut and other relief printing techniques, as well as themes of social critique and serious existential issues.
The purpose of the book is to - through the wordless novels of the 1920s and 30s - explain the uniqueness of the wordless narrative and thus the autonomous narrative possibilities of the image. The method of the examination is a close reading of the German artist Otto Nückel's wordless novel Schicksal (Destiny 1926). A comparative material consists of the Czech artist Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichova's wordless novel Z Mého Dětství (From My Childhood, 1929). Wordlessness is studied through the image's characteristics as an intermediary of messages and narratives and through comparisons with other expressions - the silent film, cirkus, expressionist dance and visual art, as well as medieval woodcuts. Narratives – which are usually put together by verbal communication – are in this project a tool for seeing: the image sequences or the image groups that ""replace"" the words - not as a lack or implied meaning of words, but as a personal visual story.
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Keywords
- Book & paper crafts
- Cultural Studies
- Expressionism in black and white
- German interwar graphic art
- Graphic novels
- Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts
- History Of Art / Art & Design Styles
- Lifestyle, sport & leisure
- Literature & literary studies
- Media Studies
- Otto Nückel
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
- thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WF Handicrafts, decorative arts and crafts::WFT Book and paper crafts
- Visual Story
- Wordless Books
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DOI: 10.22188/kriterium.38web: http://www.kriterium.se/site/books/m/10.22188/kriterium.38/
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