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Special Collections Research Center opens fall exhibition ‘The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words’

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin
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Syracuse University Library’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) has amassed a fine collection of graphic novels, or novels without words. Striking specimens of the genre from the 1920s and 1930s are now on view in the SCRC exhibition “The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words.” Selections for display were made in keeping with this year’s Syracuse Symposium theme of “conflict.”

Silent ScreamIn addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest for self-fulfillment or social justice. Because of their historical context, they may also depict the struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Similarly, the law, the police and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in graphic novels.

The artists represented are William Gropper (1897–1977), a caricaturist, cartoonist, book illustrator and social activist in the causes of labor; Laurence Hyde (1914–1987), who produced wood engravings and linocuts for books, as well as pen-and-ink illustrations for various left-wing journals; Frans Masereel (1889–1972), creator of stark and moving woodcuts; Giacomo Patri (1898–1978), who helped to promote the growing labor movement through illustration of union organizing pamphlets; John Vassos (1898–1985), commercial artist and book illustrator; and Lynd Ward (1905–1985), wood engraver known for his portrayal of quests after social justice and the fulfillment of human and artistic potential.

The exhibition is free and open to the public from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, except holidays, on the sixth floor of Bird Library on the SU campus.

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