This work provides an illustrated interpretation of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. While filling our eyes with archetypal visions of whales, ships and ocean deeps, Robert Del Tredici also dazzles us with shimmering pyrotechnics of narrator Ishmael's mind. His large-format colour silkscreens and pen-and-ink illustrations let us see Melville's masterpiece as if for the first time. This postmodern take on the great American novel boldly returns readers to the book's roots as a trancendental vision of man and nature. This work also includes incisive commentaries by noted Meville scholars Elizabeth Schultz, Robert Wallace and Jill Gidmark. They discuss the influence of Del Tredici's images on students and scholars; the relationship of his work to other Moby-Dick illustrators; and the technical and aestetic aspects of the silkscreen process.
Floodgates of the Wonderworld
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This work provides an illustrated interpretation of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. This postmodern take on the great American novel boldly returns readers to the book's roots as a trancendental vision of man and nature. This work also includes incisive commentaries by noted Meville scholars.
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Robert Del Tredici, a California native, earned a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. While teaching drawing, photography, and film in Montreal, he became America's foremost documentary photographer of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. With Floodgates of the Wonderworld, he returns to his roots to create a silkscreened version of the Melville vision that has captivated him for most of his life. He lives and works in Montreal
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CIN0873387031G
9780873387033
0873387031
Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Moby-Dick Pictorial by
Used - Good
Paperback
Kent State University Press
20010930
N/A
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