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<\/a><\/p>\nMoby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page,<\/i><\/a> Matt Kish, Tin House Books, 9781935639138<\/a><\/p>\n Combining his lack of formal artistic training, found paper from a used book store, and a 552-page paperback edition of Melville’s classic, Matt Kish – with the charm of an outsider artist but without the institutionalization or insanity – produces an utterly compelling visual journey through Ishmael’s adventures. There are striking colors and textures, odd forms – sometimes cranial, sometimes robotic. Unrolled image-by-image on Kish’s blog,<\/a> the book-based drawings now make for a whale of a book; the original art is also, now, for sale (or sold). Unlike Tom Philips’s A Humament,<\/i><\/a> the project doesn’t occlude text with image, rewriting a novel. Yet it is a forceful engagement with the page, with particular quotations, and with a encyclopedic story of obsession. The drawings are spare, powerful, and varied, in a flat illustrative style that doesn’t explain but does document one lengthy encounter with Moby-Dick.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Radical Books of 2011, 1\/10 Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page, Matt Kish, Tin House Books, 9781935639138 Combining his lack of formal artistic training, found paper from a used book store, and a 552-page paperback edition of Melville’s classic, Matt Kish – with the charm of an outsider artist but without the institutionalization … <\/p>\n