Artists After Moby-Dick

September 4 - October 24, 2001

This three-part exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Hofstra Cultural Center conference that commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1819 - 1891).

Chasing Moby-Dick Across Paper and Canvas: Five Decades of Free-Floating Literary Art

Robert K. Wallace, Guest Curator
Regents Professor, Northern Kentucky University

Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall,
10th floor, Axinn Library

The artworks in this section exist independently of the text and do not try to illustrate the novel.

"The Common Continent of Men": Visualizing Race in Moby-Dick

Elizabeth Schultz, Guest Curator
Professor, University of Kansas

David Filderman Gallery,
9th floor, Axinn Library

These text illustrations show the portrayal of the ethnicities and races inhabiting the Pequod.

Moby-Dick: History of a Loose-Fish Manuscript, Print and Culture

John Bryant, Guest Curator
Professor, Hofstra University

David Filderman Gallery,
9th floor, Axinn Library

This section discusses the various printings and versions of the novel along with original letters.

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