{"product_id":"unpainted-to-the-last-moby-dick-and-twentieth-century-american-art-paperback","title":"Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth A. Schultz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEndlessly pursued but ever elusive, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eUnpainted to the Last\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates this impressive body of work and shows how it opens up our understanding of both \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and twentieth-century American art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeftly 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSchultz demonstrates how these and many other diverse talents enlarge our appreciation of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Combining a keen appreciation for literature with an equal one for art, Schultz gives new illumination to an American masterwork, literally illustrating its enduring greatness.' - Charles C. Eldredge, former director of the National Museum of American Art and author of Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 11 x 8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42156346245255,"sku":"9780700607426","price":68.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/57b8f5a3f801cd97098b630060efcdf2.webp?v=1733243060","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/unpainted-to-the-last-moby-dick-and-twentieth-century-american-art-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}