Unpainted to the Last – read online

[Jessica Chassner]

Unpainted to the Last
“Moby Dick” and Twentieth-century American Art
by Elizabeth A. Schultz

???? Unpainted to the Last — Read More ????

• ISBN: 9780700607426 (0700607420)
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Format: paperback, 400 pages
• Language: english
• Author: Elizabeth A. Schultz
• Release date: October 20, 1995

About The Book

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.

Deftly interweaving words with images, Elizabeth Schultz radically reframes our most famous literary symbol and provides a profoundly new way of reading one of the key texts in American literature. Ranging from the realists to the abstract expressionists, from the famous to the obscure, Schultz reveals how these artists have tried both to capture the essence of Moby-Dick’s many meanings and to use it as a springboard for their own provocative imaginations.

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.

Schultz demonstrates how these and many other diverse talents enlarge our appreciation of Moby-Dick and how literature and art can amplify each other’s meanings and achievements. Yet ultimately she, like Melville, concludes that the great white whale remains unpainted and unread in any absolute or final sense.

EPUB Unpainted to the Last read online. FictionBook book Unpainted to the Last Elizabeth A. Schultz download PocketBook on Amazon. TXT ebook Unpainted to the Last by Elizabeth A. Schultz on reader on Walmart. MP3 book Unpainted to the Last buy.

Hardback Unpainted to the Last. MOBI ebook Unpainted to the Last by Elizabeth A. Schultz download for iPhone on Powells. Online book Unpainted to the Last Elizabeth A. Schultz read. FB2 ebook Unpainted to the Last buy cheap for iOS on Books-a-Million.

Hardcover Unpainted to the Last by Elizabeth A. Schultz read online on Book Depository. Paperback ebook Unpainted to the Last download on iPad. PDF book Unpainted to the Last Elizabeth A. Schultz on Barnes & Noble. Online Unpainted to the Last buy Android.

[投稿者]

投稿