In this Book
- The Petroleum Manga: A Project by Marina Zurkow
- 2014
- Book
- Published by: Punctum Books
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summary
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.
Table of Contents
- Anhydrous ammonia (NH3)
- pp. 14-23
- Polyacrylonitrile Phenol
- pp. 24-27
- Polyisobutylene (PIB)
- pp. 28-43
- Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)
- pp. 44-47
- Propylene glycol
- pp. 48-53
- High-density polyethylene (HDPE)
- pp. 54-65
- Nylon polymer
- pp. 66-81
- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
- pp. 88-93
- Polycarbonate (PC)
- pp. 94-107
- Polypropylene (PP)
- pp. 108-113
- Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
- pp. 114-129
- Polystyrene (PS)
- pp. 130-141
- Polyurethane (PU)
- pp. 142-151
- Postscript: Once Were, Now Are, Will Be
- pp. 156-157
- Contributors
- pp. 158-161
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 162-163
- Publication Data
- p. 164
Additional Information
ISBN
9780615965963
MARC Record
OCLC
1178720903
Pages
172
Launched on MUSE
2020-07-28
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
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