Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Moby-Dick Pictorial - Softcover

DelTredici, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873387031 ISBN 13: 9780873387033

Publisher: The Kent State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

In time for the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick, this remarkable body if work is sure to impress the literary and artistic communities with its stunning vision of this great American novel. Melville’s audacious epic Moby-Dick has found an illustrator equal to its mercurial text. This postmodern take on the great American novel boldly returns readers to the book’s roots as a transcendental vision of man and nature. Floodgates of the Underworld includes incisive commentaries by noted Melville scholars Elizabeth Schultz, Robert Wallace, and Jill Gidmark. They discuss the influence of Del Tredici’s images in students and scholars, the relationship of his work to other Moby-Dick illustrators, and the technical and aesthetic aspects of the silkscreen process.

About this title

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0873387031
• ISBN 13: 9780873387033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152