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Frans Masereel — Idée: Sa naissance, sa vie, sa mort

1920 · Book · Public Domain (US, published 1920)

An artist releases an Idea into the world, where authorities try to clothe, suppress, commercialize, and destroy her. Masereel turns the life of a thought into a political visual allegory, expanding the chamber's account of what sequential images can personify.

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