Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Moby-Dick Pictorial

Author:   Robert Del Tredici
Publisher:   Kent State University Press
ISBN:  

9780873387033


Pages:   152
Publication Date:   01 August 2001
Format:   Paperback
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Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Moby-Dick Pictorial


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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.

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Author:   Robert Del Tredici
Publisher:   Kent State University Press
Imprint:   Kent State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.739kg
ISBN:  

9780873387033


ISBN 10:   0873387031
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   01 August 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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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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