The City A Vision in Woodcuts

This graphic novel by an Expressionist master offers a stunning portrait of urban Europe between the world wars. First published in Germany in 1925, it presents 100 woodcuts of remarkable force and beauty. Frans Masereel sympathized with the struggles of the working classes and strove to make his art accessible to ordinary people. His evocative yet subtle woodcuts convey scenes of work and leisure, wealth and depravation, and joy and loneliness. Thomas Mann described Masereel's works as "so strangely compelling, so deeply felt, so rich in ideas that one never tires of looking at them." Epic, unflinching, and influential, The City recaptures the mood of a vanished era.