Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Si Lewen was born in Lublin, Poland, on November 8, 1918, to secular Jewish parents. After moving to Berlin to escape Polish anti-Semitism, he fled to France before immigrating to New York in 1935. After serving in the army during World War II, Lewen made his livelihood as a painter. He lives in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania.Art Spiegelman is an American comics writer, artist, and editor best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel memoir, Maus.
An eloquent and vigorous protest against war’s horror and futility.
The New York Times, from an exhibition review of The Parade, 1953
Nothing can equal the psychological effect of real art . . .Our time needs you and your work!
Albert Einstein, from a letter to Si Lewen, 1951
The Parade is a powerfully moving free-jazz dirge of a book that depicts mankind’s recurring war fever. It remains sadly urgent and relevant today.
Art Spiegelman, from his introduction
“A compelling testament to Lewen’s gifts for stirring our souls with the silent grace of painted panel after panel after panel. As narrative, it is music by which to mourn Man’s fate.”
The Washington Post
“There are many masterworks dealing with conflict and its evils, from Goya’s “Disasters of War” to Picasso’s “Guernica” to Jacob Lawrence’s “War Series.” Si Lewen’s “Parade” must be counted among them.”
Wall Street Journal
The Parade is a timeless story told in a language that knows no country—a wordless epic that, despite its muteness, is more powerful than the written or the spoken word. First published in 1957 in a limited edition, The Parade is a lost classic, newly discovered, remastered and presented by Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Maus. Reproduced in a unique accordion-fold format as a “procession of drawings that remain in close dialogue with one another” as the artist originally intended, The Parade is the story of recurring war as Si Lewen experienced it over 90 years ago, watching the joyful parades that marked the end of World War I lead into the death marches of World War II and the Korean War. As The Parade unfolds, the reader is taken on a relentless journey of sequential images.
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Si Lewen was born in Lublin, Poland, on November 8, 1918, to secular Jewish parents. After moving to Berlin to escape Polish anti-Semitism, he fled to France before immigrating to New York in 1935. After serving in the army during World War II, Lewen made his livelihood as a painter. He lives in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania.Art Spiegelman is an American comics writer, artist, and editor best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel memoir, Maus.