Works Of Mercy

by Eichenberg, Fritz

• ISBN13: 9781570755521
• ISBN10: 1570755523
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

Renowned for his illustrations of literary classics by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Fritz Eichenberg, who died in 1991 at the age of 90, was one of the world's master wood engravers. This collection contains his contemporary renderings of the life of Christ--among the homeless, hungry, and persecuted--from his 40 years of contributions to The Catholic Worker newspaper. 50 illustrations.

Author Biography

Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1991) was one of the world's master wood engravers, renowned for his illustrations of works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and other literary classics. A German immigrant and Quaker convert, he served as chair of the graphic arts department at the Pratt Institute in New York City and authored The Art of the Print, which became a standard text. He achieved a different fame from his forty years of contributions to The Catholic Worker newspaper, represented in this stunning volume.

Table of Contents

Preface	11	(2)
Fritz Eichenberg: Artist of the Peaceable Kingdom	13	(13)
Jim Forest
Scenes from the Old Testament	26	(6)
The First Seven Days	26	(1)
And Their Eyes Were Opened	27	(1)
And in Her Mouth Was an Olive Leaf	28	(1)
The Lamentations of Jeremiah	29	(1)
The Book of Job	30	(1)
The Story of Jonah	31	(1)
Scenes from the Life of Christ	32	(21)
Annunciation	32	(1)
Room for Christ	33	(3)
Dorothy Day
Epiphany	36	(1)
Christmas	37	(1)
Joseph the Carpenter	38	(1)
Flight to Egypt	39	(1)
Jesus and the Leper	40	(1)
The Light	41	(1)
The Ninth Hour	42	(1)
The Last Supper	43	(1)
Sentencing	44	(1)
Ecce Homo	45	(1)
On to Golgotha	46	(1)
The Mob	47	(1)
King of the Jews	48	(1)
Casting the Dice	49	(1)
Black Crucifixion	50	(1)
Pieta	51	(1)
Doubting Thomas	52	(1)
Revealing the Inner Light: An Interview with Fritz Eichenberg	53	(13)
Where Do We Go?	65	(1)
Saints and Witnesses	66	(12)
St. Francis, Sermon to the Birds	66	(1)
St. Benedict	67	(1)
Blessed Martin de Porres	68	(1)
St. John of the Cross	69	(1)
St. Joan of Arc	70	(1)
St. Francis, Receiving the Stigmata	71	(1)
Count Leo Tolstoy	72	(1)
Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace	73	(1)
Martin Buber	74	(1)
Mohandas Gandhi, Great Soul	75	(1)
Peter Maurin	76	(1)
Dorothy Day, from Homage to Dorothy Day	77	(1)
Scenes from the Catholic Worker	78	(13)
Homage to Dorothy Day	78	(1)
Fritz Eichenberg
Christ of the Breadlines	78	(5)
Holy Family, Farmworkers	83	(1)
Catholic Worker Family	84	(1)
The Lord's Supper	85	(1)
The Labor Cross	86	(1)
Christ of the Homeless	87	(2)
Prints from The Long Loneliness	89	(1)
Homage to Peter Maurin	90	(1)
Scenes of War and Peace	91	(18)
The Dove and the Hawk	91	(1)
Art and Faith	92	(1)
Fritz Eichenberg
Stalemate from Dance of Death	93	(2)
Crucifixion from Dance of Death	95	(2)
Total Disarmament from Fables with a Twist	97	(1)
Art as Witness	98	(1)
Fritz Eichenberg
The Peaceable Kingdom (1950)	99	(2)
St. Francis (1979)	101	(2)
The Peaceable Kingdom (1978)	103	(2)
Peaceable Kingdom (1955)	105	(2)
Nightwatch	107	(1)
Servant of All	108	(1)
The Dream of Reason	109