Images Between the Lines (1997)
From Darkness Towards Light
Fifteen linocuts born from a World War II memoir, a childhood stoning, and the conviction that cutting into darkness is an act of hope.
When Stan was nine, a group of boys threw stones at him, screaming that he had killed Christ. They had been taught to hate Jews. He cried, then grew angry. He wanted to fight back.
Fear runs through history — real or imagined, it leads to anger, then hate, then aggression. Without love and acceptance, indifference and greed take hold, and prejudice follows.
Images: Between the Lines grew from that understanding — beginning as a memoir of his World War II experiences and his growing awareness of the Holocaust. Lines were everywhere: on the page, between armies, around prisons, keeping everyone in order. Writing home to his parents during the war, he remembered everything he couldn't bring himself to tell them. The truth lived between the lines. After seeing Goya's Disasters of War at the Met, he felt compelled to make fifteen linocut prints, and words, images, and text came together into a book.
He self-publishes to control the process — the type, the paper, the rhythm of the whole. He cuts into dark linoleum to bring out light. That movement, from darkness toward light, is his metaphor for hope.
Inside the book...
Fifty years after the experience, and inspired by Goya's Disasters of War at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stan created fifteen linocut prints — accompanied by words that emerged as a natural development.
The Ghetto
Villification
Severed
Fear
The Unthinkable
Lament
March to the Front
Taking the High Ground
The Fallen
Aftermath
Surrender
Liberation
The Survivor
Just Following Orders
