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The Flemish wood engraver Frans Masereel is the greatest engraver of the 20th century, as critics have often called him.
Photo book with black and white woodcuts - interview during film recording - director: Frans Buyens - the conversations between Frans Masereel and Frans Buyens were filmed in August 1968.
As films it was completed in 1969 as "J'aime le noir et le blanc" and "Entretiens filmés de Frans Masereel et Frans Buyens". The first premiered in the Netherlands (VARA) on 1 May 1969. The second during the opening of the exhibition in Blankenberge (B) on 4 July 1969. This book was made on the basis of both films and contains parts of the conversations (translated into Flemish/Dutch), 120 images of woodcuts and drawings, plus an overview of the most important book editions and folders in which work by Frans Masereel (1917-1964) appeared. As films it was completed in 1969 as "J'aime le noir et le blanc" and "Entretiens filmés de Frans Masereel et Frans Buyens".
The first premiered in the Netherlands (VARA) on May 1, 1969. The second during the opening of the exhibition in Blankenberge (B) on July 4, 1969.
This book was made on the occasion of both films and contains parts of the conversations (translated into Flemish/Dutch), 120 images of woodcuts and drawings, plus an overview of the most important book editions and folders in which work by Frans Masereel (1917-1964) appeared.
In collaboration with the Ministry of National Education and Culture of Belgium.
This book is a 1st edition from 1969.