Pandora – The Anodos,, (undated)

Lubell 6/14: 106

Colored white line woodcut print of Pandora, the first woman according to Greek mythology (and symbolic figure of its cultural misogyny) flanked by two burly men hitting the top of her head with hammers. As "Anodos" refers to a form of ascension (Plato used it to describe enlightenment), and they are hitting her head as she prays, this may suggest an alternate reading of the Pandora story in which her opening of the eponymous box – which led to evil being unleashed unto the world – was in fact a natural and necessary evolution of humanity. The art style is extremely evocative of and very much based on early Greek pottery, with an almost exclusive emphasis on red and black and aspiring to their early naturalistic extent. Printed on mustard-colored rice paper. Signed Winifred Milius Lubell. This print is the same as Lubell 293. See woodblock, Pandora Anadosis (Lubell 469, Box 31).

28 x 40.5 cm