Passionate Journey
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Passionate Journey, or My Book of Hours * Mon livre d'heures, is a wordless novel of 1919 by Flemish artist Frans Masereel. The story is told in 167 captionless prints, and is the longest and best-sel
The protagonist arrives at the city by train.
Masereel depicts himself (left) dressed in the same manner as the book's protagonist (center, right).
The protagonist finishes with a posthumous walk in the cosmos.
The 149th image, which was cut from some editions
The Sun (wordless novel)
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The Sun is a wordless novel by Flemish artist Frans Masereel, published in 1919. In sixty-three uncaptioned woodcut prints, the book is a contemporary retelling of the Greek myth of Icarus.
Passionate Journey
…publishers to print wordless novels, and the genre flourished in the interwar years. Masereel followed the book with dozens of others, beginning with The Sun later in 1919. Masereel's work was lauded in the art world in the earlier half of the 20th century, but has since been neglected outside of Western…
Frans Masereel Die Sonne self portrait