5 Woodcut from Frans Masereel, Passionate Journey

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TitlePage from a woodcut novel

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Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

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Object typePrint

MaterialsWoodcut

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LocationFrom Frans Masereel, "Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts" (1919), n.p.

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SubjectsSilhouettesExpressionism (Art)

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How Silhouettes Became “Black”: The Visual Rhetoric of the Harlem Renaissance

Frank Mehring

Circulation

Silhouettes confront us in our daily encounters with new digital media, advertisements, computer games, and films. They appear in the outline of company logos on smartphones and iPads, and on movie posters and advertisements in global urban environments. They remind us of the iconic Bat-Signal in the DC Comics series and the silhouetted credit sequences by Maurice...

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Frank Mehring

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.180-216

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00191.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19916&redirecttoanchor=47885

Chapter subject tags:Harlem RenaissanceDouglas, AaronReiss, Winold, 1886-1953Walker, Kara Elizabeth

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