TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zurkow,Marina
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Petroleum Manga: A Project by Marina Zurkow
SN  - 9780615965963
AV  - N6537.Z676 A4 2014
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Influence
KW  - Prose poems, American
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Arts, American
KW  - Petroleum chemicals
KW  - In literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Open Access
N2  - The Petroleum Manga, first conceived of and rendered as 10-foot banners printed on Tyvek for gallery installation is now reproduced in book form. Originally, manga was used in Japanese to refer to whimsical drawings or picture books. Long before Manga was a multi-billion-dollar-a-year comic book industry, there was Hokusai's thirteen-volume manga, depicting everything from trees to demons, from squirrels to shingles. This was the work that inspired the form for Marina Zurkow's own crazy amalgam depicting a taxonomy of products derived from petroleum. Remaining true to this inspiration, this book compiles a curious array of imaginative-philosophical texts illuminating, illustrating, fabulating, and riffing upon a wide range of petrochemical-based objects and ideas. This "collection" maps new webs of relations between us and these seemingly ubiquitous yet often unremarked objects, along the lines of a fanciful petro-poetics. Fanciful, yet dead serious. As Duncan Murrell writes, "...our plastics will live forever, no longer able to decompose, while we become molecules again. When we are long gone, there will still be plastic clown masks circling in the Pacific Ocean. This, and not our great works of art and literature, will be the persistent legacy of life on earth, these objects crafted out of life's own ancient flesh."
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76461/
ER  -