03126oam 22005654a 450 991014044670332120240419121634.0(CKB)2670000000557904(WaSeSS)IndRDA00057223(OCoLC)1178720903(MdBmJHUP)muse87144(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30459(EXLCZ)99267000000055790420200724e20202014 uy 0engurm|#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Petroleum Manga: A Project by Marina Zurkowa project by Marina ZurkowBrooklyn, NYpunctum books2014Baltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2020©20201 online resource (172 pages) illustrations; digital file(s)Print version: 0615965962 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."Comic books, strips, etcInfluenceProse poems, American21st centuryShort stories, American21st centuryArts, American21st centuryPetroleum chemicalsIn literatureillustrationpetroleummangapoetryecologyphilosophynatureComic books, strips, etc.Influence.Prose poems, AmericanShort stories, AmericanArts, AmericanPetroleum chemicalsIn literature.Zurkow Marina876134MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910140446703321The Petroleum Manga: A Project by Marina Zurkow2429220UNINA