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George A. Walker, Books, The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography, This muted narrative, told in engravings bathed in silence, is configured from the gestures and attitudes of the people whose story it is. The artist has stripped away the specific references for the images, the facts of the public record, even the dates themselves, and allows a deeper tale to emerge from this story of no words. When released from the reality beyond the page and cut loose from the authority of the sources, another protagonist is incarnated from the inky prints. Here is a story of a man whose life is defined by hubris. The narrative cadence enfolds an iconography and a persona given over to reading and writing. He creates realities from the written word - alphabets of the imagination. Stories of great figures - fictions of a different sort - reflect back on this wordless tale, set down in pictures engraved and printed as indelibly as the newspapers and books that are dominant in the life of Walker's Black.What does Walker tell us in this life of a man who rose and fell, whose reach and intellect were able to shape opinion, structure history, delineate a personal chronology so powerfully that, in this true telling, a hybrid fiction is invented and revealed in black ink on white paper?The protagonist, we quickly learn, is a man of manners, adept at games of strategy and stealth. He is well schooled and subject to several forms of abuse aimed to curb his truant impulses. Cruelty: this, Walker declaims pictorially, is what moulded his man, engraving his spirit with a calm, controlled demeanour belying a vast reservoir of wisdom and strength of character, perhaps even mendacity. The grim-faced fathers and patriarchs, plutocrats and titans, these almighty men lend our hero dimensions of character and act as foils against whom he measures himself, the better to calibrate his calculated advance into the very heart of their powerful domains. Walker's Black is as clever as he is learned. He sits astride a zephyr caressing the massive stones that articulate the façades of a great banking hall; or in an office, at a typewriter, and writes stories. History, biography - fictions of a sort - these fuel the man in his private, creative moments. The life of his mind makes sense of roiling events cascading down through the decades, playing out in a country and its renegade province unused to men like him.The public theatre, we are shown, comprises men of action and gesture. The microphone, the academic gown, these appurtenances spell out a script measured by the judgment of his mind and the unctuous tone of his players. Events are described in books; chaos is held firm in the pages of text and black ink pasted down between the covers. Our man writes, inscribes the voices and incantations of the people he meets and sizes up. His perceptions plumb the surfaces of glib postures and staged performance.In the black-and-white rhythms of his engravings, Walker choreographs sharp contrasts of lights and darks as they play with sight and perception to make sense of intervals. In the sequence in which these graphic glyphs appears, Walker describes silence, punctuating the blank spaces and pages with posed attenuated portraits and hermetic scenes. In silent voices that speak in pictures on these pages, we hear of our man establishing a profile in business as well as in affairs of the church and in the convocations of the aristocracy. A family man; and yet Walker's Black measures himself against peers in suits, in the regalia of nobility, and in the costumes of the entertainer. He is a Canadian.Above all, Walker tells us that this person writes and reads books. It is as if in the act of reading our hero is conjured whole from the page. From the artist's mind we see a man who is a product of his past, freighted with certainty and governed by rectitude and proper manners.Hubris. Walker's Black is brought low by the very strengths he worked so.
George A. Walker, Books, The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography, This muted narrative, told in engravings bathed in silence, is configured from the gestures and attitudes of the people whose story it is. The artist has stripped away the specific references for the images, the facts of the public record, even the dates themselves, and allows a deeper tale to emerge from this story of no words. When released from the reality beyond the page and cut loose from the authority of the sources, another protagonist is incarnated from the inky prints. Here is a story of a man whose life is defined by hubris. The narrative cadence enfolds an iconography and a persona given over to reading and writing. He creates realities from the written word - alphabets of the imagination. Stories of great figures - fictions of a different sort - reflect back on this wordless tale, set down in pictures engraved and printed as indelibly as the newspapers and books that are dominant in the life of Walker's Black.What does Walker tell us in this life of a man who rose and fell, whose reach and intellect were able to shape opinion, structure history, delineate a personal chronology so powerfully that, in this true telling, a hybrid fiction is invented and revealed in black ink on white paper?The protagonist, we quickly learn, is a man of manners, adept at games of strategy and stealth. He is well schooled and subject to several forms of abuse aimed to curb his truant impulses. Cruelty: this, Walker declaims pictorially, is what moulded his man, engraving his spirit with a calm, controlled demeanour belying a vast reservoir of wisdom and strength of character, perhaps even mendacity. The grim-faced fathers and patriarchs, plutocrats and titans, these almighty men lend our hero dimensions of character and act as foils against whom he measures himself, the better to calibrate his calculated advance into the very heart of their powerful domains. Walker's Black is as clever as he is learned. He sits astride a zephyr caressing the massive stones that articulate the façades of a great banking hall; or in an office, at a typewriter, and writes stories. History, biography - fictions of a sort - these fuel the man in his private, creative moments. The life of his mind makes sense of roiling events cascading down through the decades, playing out in a country and its renegade province unused to men like him.The public theatre, we are shown, comprises men of action and gesture. The microphone, the academic gown, these appurtenances spell out a script measured by the judgment of his mind and the unctuous tone of his players. Events are described in books; chaos is held firm in the pages of text and black ink pasted down between the covers. Our man writes, inscribes the voices and incantations of the people he meets and sizes up. His perceptions plumb the surfaces of glib postures and staged performance.In the black-and-white rhythms of his engravings, Walker choreographs sharp contrasts of lights and darks as they play with sight and perception to make sense of intervals. In the sequence in which these graphic glyphs appears, Walker describes silence, punctuating the blank spaces and pages with posed attenuated portraits and hermetic scenes. In silent voices that speak in pictures on these pages, we hear of our man establishing a profile in business as well as in affairs of the church and in the convocations of the aristocracy. A family man; and yet Walker's Black measures himself against peers in suits, in the regalia of nobility, and in the costumes of the entertainer. He is a Canadian.Above all, Walker tells us that this person writes and reads books. It is as if in the act of reading our hero is conjured whole from the page. From the artist's mind we see a man who is a product of his past, freighted with certainty and governed by rectitude and proper manners.Hubris. Walker's Black is brought low by the very strengths he worked so.
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The Life and Times of Conrad Black: Wordless Biography
EN USISBN: 0889843651 bzw. 9780889843653, in Englisch, Porcupine's Quill, gebraucht.
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used books,books, The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography (Graphic Novels), Master engraver George A. Walker presents The Life and Times of Conrad Black, a wordless biography of the Canadian-born media mogul. With 100 stunning woodcuts, Walker affords readers a glimpse of Black as a child, as a successful businessman, as a British peer, and as a convicted felon.
used books,books, The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography (Graphic Novels), Master engraver George A. Walker presents The Life and Times of Conrad Black, a wordless biography of the Canadian-born media mogul. With 100 stunning woodcuts, Walker affords readers a glimpse of Black as a child, as a successful businessman, as a British peer, and as a convicted felon.
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The Life and Times of Conrad Black : A Wordless Biography
EN NW EBISBN: 9780889848030 bzw. 0889848033, in Englisch, The Porcupine's Quill, neu, E-Book.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
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