NP Frank Stella's Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes

[Doug Millison]

I know we have several Moby Dick fans out there, you may be 
interested in this book:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/500/10901.ctl

Robert K. Wallace Frank Stella's Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes
344 pp. 72 photographs, 158 color photographs 2000

ISBN: 0-472-10901-4 Cloth $69.50

One of the world's leading painters and printmakers,
the artist Frank Stella spent over a decade creating a huge series of works
linked with Herman Melville's classic novel Moby-Dick. The completed series
consists of more than 135 pieces: large metal reliefs, prints, a 
major sculpture,
a large mural, and other items. Each work relates to one chapter of Moby-Dick,
and the entire series is a highly ambitious, subtle, and liberating response to
the novel. Frank Stella's Moby-Dick series is an extraordinary venture on a
massive scale, by a major artist.

Robert K. Wallace, an expert on Melville, has written a clear and comprehensive
interpretation of Stella's artistic evolution during the creation of 
this series.
Frank Stella's Moby-Dick Series describes the development of the series,
traces its distribution and reception around the world, analyzes its rich and
complex relation to the novel, and addresses the joint value of Stella's series
and Melville's novel in expanding the consciousness of a shrinking world in the
late twentieth century.

Items from the Moby-Dick series have been exhibited in the United States,
Europe, and Japan, but never before has there been a way to view them as a
whole. Frank Stella's Moby-Dick Series provides the definitive documentation
of this artistic achievement. Accompanied by more than 200 
illustrations, Robert
Wallace's text includes a chronology and a catalog raisonné of the artwork, as
well as a list of exhibitions.

Robert K. Wallace is Regents Professor of English/American Literature, Northern
Kentucky University.