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008			200724r20202014nyu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9780615965963
035			_a(OCoLC)1178720903
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050		4	_aN6537.Z676 _bA4 2014
100	1		_aZurkow, Marina, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Petroleum Manga: A Project by Marina Zurkow _ca project by Marina Zurkow.
264		1	_bProject Muse,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (163 pages) : _billustrations
500			_aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aThe 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."
585			_a2015 Poets House Showcase.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aComic books, strips, etc. _xInfluence.
650		0	_aProse poems, American _y21st century.
650		0	_aShort stories, American _y21st century.
650		0	_aArts, American _y21st century.
650		0	_aPetroleum chemicals _xIn literature.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _z9780615965963
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76461/
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