Nausicau (from James Joyce's Ulysses)
1944
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lithograph
Dimensions
image: 275 x 190 mm sheet: 331 x 250 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.5176
Art Historical Context
**Nausicaa (from James Joyce'sUlysses*)** Bernard Zawisa, 1944 Lithograph; image: 275 × 190 mm (sheet: 331 × 250 mm) Created in 1944, Bernard Zawisa's lithographNausicaa (from James Joyce's Ulysses)* inspiration from one of the most celebrated modernist novels. Joyce's *Ulysses*, published in 1922, reimagines Homer's *Odyssey* in early 20th-century Dublin with the "Nausicaa" evoking the beach encounter between Odysseus and the princess Nausicaa. Zawisa's print captures this literary moment through the versatile medium of lithography, a planographic technique where images are drawn on st...