Moby-Dick in Pictures One Drawing for Every Page
First US edition
Hardback (04 Oct 2011)
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Inspired by one of the world's greatest novels, Ohio artist Matt Kish set out on an epic voyage of his own one day in August 2009. More than one hundred and fifty years following the original publication ofMoby-Dick, Kish began illustrating Herman Melville's classic, creating an image a day over the next eighteen months based on text selected from every page of the 552-page Signet Classics paperback edition. Completely self-taught, Kish refused to set any boundaries for the artwork and employed a deliberately low-tech approach in response to the increasing popularity of born-digital art and literature. He used found pages torn from old, discarded books, as well as a variety of mediums, including ballpoint pen, marker, paint, crayon, ink, and watercolor. By layering images on top of existing words and images, Kish has crafted a visual masterpiece that echoes the layers of meaning in Melville's narrative.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781935639121 |
Publisher: | Tin House Books |
Imprint: | Tin House |
Pub date: | 04 Oct 2011 |
Edition: | First US edition |
DEWEY: | 704.9498133 |
DEWEY edition: | 23/eng/20240425 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xii, 552 |
Weight: | 2418g |
Height: | 264mm |
Width: | 216mm |
Spine width: | 61mm |