Struthers Burt Prefatory Text (1 results)

Condition: Near Fine. Color frontispiece, seventy-four numbered plates, including six in color. (illustrator). Signed Limited Edition. [x], [1-2] 3-18 [19-20], [74 plates]. 12.5" x 9.25" CARICATURES: SZYK'S WEAPON OF ANIT-FASCISM "Words and pictures are bullets whose flight never ends" writes Struthers Burt in the prefatory pages. For Szyk, his caricatures--delivered with colorful satirical precision--were not weapons as an end in themselves, but instruments intended to hasten the end of war: weapons moving toward peace. Polish-born but residing in America for much of the Second World War, Szyk (1894-1951) endures as one of the most profound anti-Nazi cartoonists of the twentieth-century. Ink and Blood gathers his most potent wartime caricatures, capturing the moral urgency and graphic brilliance of Szyk's pen. Unlike ephemeral newspaper appearances, here his images are preserved in lasting form-part propaganda, part artistic manifesto. Ink and Blood stands as both cultural document and enduring testament to art deployed in the service of conscience. This edition, bound in full black morocco with batik paper, and limited to 1000 inscribed copies, is inscribed by Szyk to Rudolph Singer, whose bookplate is adhered to the ffep verso. Spine moderately rubbed, with some light wear to front joint, else near fine in very good, lightly rubbed slipcase with spots of wears to corners. Internally clean and sharp text and plates. Publisher's full black morocco, titled in gilt, purple and orange batik endpapers, housed in matching publisher's slipcase. Signed.