Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art - Rilegato

Schultz, Elizabeth A.

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ISBN 10: 0700607412 ISBN 13: 9780700607419

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Kansas, 1995

Riassunto

Endlessly pursued but ever elusive, Moby-Dick roams freely throughout the American imagination. A fathomless source for literary exploration, Melville's masterpiece has also inspired a stunning array of book illustrations, prints, comics, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and even architectural designs. Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Unpainted to the Last illuminates this impressive body of work and shows how it opens up our understanding of both Moby-Dick and twentieth-century American art.
The most continuously, frequently, and diversely illustrated of all American novels, Moby-Dick has attracted some remarkable book illustrators in Rockwell Kent, Boardman Robinson, Garrick Palmer, Barry Moser, and Bill Sienkiewicz, among others represented here. It has also inspired extraordinary creations by such prominent artists as Jackson Pollock, Frank Stella, Sam Francis, Benton Spruance, Leonard Baskin, Theodoros Stamos, Richard Ellis, Ralph Goings, Seymour Lipton, Walter Martin, Tony Rosenthal, Richard Serra, and Theodore Roszak.
The artists reflect in equal measure the novel's realistic (plot, character, natural history) and philosophical modes, its visual and visionary dimensions. Some, like the obsessed and haunted Gilbert Wilson, claim Moby-Dick as their "Bible." Still others view the novel as a touchstone for feminist, multicultural, and environmentalist themes, or mock its status as a cultural icon.

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L'autore:

Elizabeth A. Schultz is a Chancellors' Club Teaching Professor of English at the University of Kansas.

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Book by Schultz Elizabeth A

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Kansas
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0700607412
• ISBN 13: 9780700607419
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 440