Book of Hours: A Wordless Novel Told In 99 Wood Engravings
- SIGNED
- Erin, ONT: Porcupine's Quill, 2012
Erin, ONT: Porcupine's Quill, 2012. [Third edition]. George A. Walker. 189pp. Octavo [23 cm] Black cloth with silver stamped title on the front board. Housed in matching slipcase. Both fine. Signed by the artist/author on the frontispiece. A wordless novel tribute to those who lost their lives in 9/11. With an introduction by David A. Berona, woodcut-novel historian and author of "Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels."
Walker's art contributes to the great wood engraving tradition established by the likes of Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward and Otto Nuckel, and demonstrates the endless need to expose and question social and political injustice through art and narrative.
Walker's art contributes to the great wood engraving tradition established by the likes of Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward and Otto Nuckel, and demonstrates the endless need to expose and question social and political injustice through art and narrative.