Buy this book on-line TREDICI,ROBERT DEL: : FLOODGATES of the WONDERWORLD: A Moby-Dick PictorialUS.KENT,OHIO.KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS,2001. ISBN 9780873387033.
US,slim Qrto,s/back original,1st edn.NMINT.No owner inscrpn,card wraps,as issued.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork by Robert Del Tredici,illustrated card covers with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase - as new.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean and pristine - unread - apart from my own collation - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners and no readng creases to the spine/backstrip either.US,slim rectangular,s/back original,1st edn,1-146pp [paginated] includes 3 essays by noted Melville scholars; Elizabeth Schultz,Jill B. Gidmark and Robert K. Wallace respectively,59 duo-colour plates including b/w and multi-colour plates/
illustrations all by Robert Del Tedici,and a Postscript by Robert Del Tredici with assorted b/w photographs interspersed through the text. Plus [unpaginated],title-page recto of same with Tredici colour pictorial frntis,half-title page recto of same with dedication and acknowledgements and a contents list/table. Melville's audacious epic Moby-Dick has at last found an illustrator equal to its mercurial text.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.
'Floodgates of the Wonderworld' 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.
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby Dick,this remarkable body of work is sure to impress the literary and artistic communities with its stunning vision of this great American novel.
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