Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 25 Images of a Man's Passion, or The Passion of a Man (French: 25 images de la passion d'un homme, 1918), was the first wordless novel by Flemish artist Frans Masereel (1889–1972). The silent story is about a young working-class man who leads a revolution against his employer. The first of dozens of such works by Masereel, the book is considered to be the first wordless novel, a genre that saw its greatest popularity in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Masereel followed the book in 1919 with his best-known work, Passionate Journey.Masereel had grown up reading revolutionary socialist literature, and expressed his politics in A Man's Passion; the work is also laden with religious imagery, with the Common Man taking the role of the martyred Christ. It owed its visual style to Expressionism and mediaeval woodcuts. The book was popular, particularly in German editions, which had introductions by writers Max Brod, Hermann Hesse, and Thomas Mann.. }
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- 25_Images_of_a_Man's_Passion abstract "25 Images of a Man's Passion, or The Passion of a Man (French: 25 images de la passion d'un homme, 1918), was the first wordless novel by Flemish artist Frans Masereel (1889–1972). The silent story is about a young working-class man who leads a revolution against his employer. The first of dozens of such works by Masereel, the book is considered to be the first wordless novel, a genre that saw its greatest popularity in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Masereel followed the book in 1919 with his best-known work, Passionate Journey.Masereel had grown up reading revolutionary socialist literature, and expressed his politics in A Man's Passion; the work is also laden with religious imagery, with the Common Man taking the role of the martyred Christ. It owed its visual style to Expressionism and mediaeval woodcuts. The book was popular, particularly in German editions, which had introductions by writers Max Brod, Hermann Hesse, and Thomas Mann.".