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Vladimir Zimakov is an illustrator, book artist, designer, and printmaker who lives in the Los Angeles area. Many of his pieces are meant to illustrate books, but they really contain their own stories. His work oozes with mood and emotion. These two linoleum cut illustrations ("The Card Play" and "Danse Macabre") are for a classic novel titled Walpurgisnacht, by Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932).
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This early 20'th century novel uses the city of Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the ancient castle, and a Czech revolution seething in the city below. History, myth, romance and political reality merge in this truly apocalyptic epic. Gustav Meyrink is an Austrian writer who is mostly known to the english-speaking world for his 1915 classic "The Golem".Link (via Juxtapoz)