Jun 18, 2018
In 1934, American artist Lynn Ward created a series of vivid woodcuts illustrating the novel Frankenstein. This example is typical, a disturbing, semi-erotic vision of the newly-born Monster, somehow both innocent and threatening, as he is both classical in his muscularity and gothic in his deformity. This is the moment in the novel when the Monster pulls back the bed-curtains of the sleeping Victor Frankenstein. Lynn Ward captures that moment in all its polyvalent, ambiguous threat.
