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Moby Dick : Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson

by Robert K. Elder

2020-07-25 02:07:23

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500 pages, 150+ illustrations7 x 9+ in.19.05 x 23.495 cm.Hat & Beard Press is celebrating Herman Melville''s 200th birthday with a full-color edition of Moby-Dick, illustrated by the rediscovered art of Gilbert Wilson.Film director John Huston decla... Read more
500 pages, 150+ illustrations7 x 9+ in.19.05 x 23.495 cm.Hat & Beard Press is celebrating Herman Melville''s 200th birthday with a full-color edition of Moby-Dick, illustrated by the rediscovered art of Gilbert Wilson.Film director John Huston declared him "a brilliant artist and one of America''s foremost painters." Pearl S. Buck sponsored an exhibition of his work in New York, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote about his work in her newspaper column.Yet, for most of his life, artist Gilbert Brown Wilson (1907-1991) lived in relative obscurity, despite a critical splash in the 1930s. He sacrificed financial security for artistic freedom.An acolyte of Diego Rivera and an assistant to Rockwell Kent, Wilson became recognized for his gargantuan murals at Indiana State University and Antioch College, and for the controversy sparked by his "social realist" style.But Moby-Dick became Wilson''s lifetime obsession, for which he produced more than 200 paintings and drawings, and helped inspire Huston''s 1956 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck and Orson Welles.This large, coffee-table book will showcase never-before-published artwork, notes, and meditations on the novel - drawing from unprecedented access to Wilson''s estate. The book will also provide a platform for the international art community to reassess and rediscover this remarkable man and his work.The edition pays homage to Melville''s original text, while breathing new life into the story via Wilson''s vibrant, timeless artwork. Critics have called Moby-Dick "the most ambitious book ever conceived by an American writer" - and Wilson''s version will be the most ambitious illustrated edition of that book.Edited by Robert K. ElderImages courtesy of the Swope Art Museum." Less

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File size9.5x7.7x1inches
Print pages440
PublisherHat & Beard Press
Publication date October 1, 2019
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781732734517
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Robert K. Elder
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