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The wordless novel uses captionless pictures to tell a story, most often using woodcut and other relief printing techniques. The genre flourished primarily in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in Germany. The typically socialist work drew inspiration from medieval woodcuts and used the awkward look of that medium to express angst and frustration at social injustice. The first such book was the Belgian Frans Masereel's 25 Images of a Man's Passion (illustrated), published in 1918. Other artists, such as the German Otto Nückel, followed Masereel's example. Lynd Ward brought the genre to the United States in 1929 when he produced Gods' Man, which inspired other American wordless novels and was parodied in 1930 by cartoonist Milt Gross in He Done Her Wrong. Following an early-1930s peak in production and popularity, the genre waned in the face of competition from sound films and anti-socialist censorship in Nazi Germany and the US. The graphic novels of cartoonists Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman and the wordless graphic novels of Eric Drooker and Peter Kuper were inspired by the wordless novel genre. (Full article...)

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Sunset at Montmajour is an oil painting on canvas, depicting a landscape of garrigue with the ruins of Montmajour Abbey in the background, painted by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in 1888, when he lived in Arles, France, and inventoried by his brother Theo. It had several owners and was eventually purchased in 1908 by the Norwegian industrialist Christian Nicolai Mustad, who placed it in storage when told it was not actually by van Gogh. It was only reestablished as part of the artist's oeuvre in 2013, the first full-sized Van Gogh painting to be newly confirmed since 1928.

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