Moby-Dick in pictures : one drawing for every page / Matt Kish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kish, Matt, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick--Pictorial works.

Melville, Herman.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xii, 552 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Ore. : Tin House Books, 2011.

Summary:

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 of "Moby-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.

ISBN:

9781935639121

1935639129

9781935639138

1935639137

OCLC:

707257335