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The Petroleum Manga: A Project by Marina Zurkow

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MarinaZurkow
2014
Published by: Punctum Books
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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

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Cover

Copyright

Contents

Forward

pp. 1-3

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)

pp. 4-13

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

Paraffin

pp. 82-87

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

petro chemo agentissimal: a synthetic polymeRhythm

pp. 152-155

Postscript: Once Were, Now Are, Will Be

pp. 156-157

Contributors

pp. 158-161

Acknowledgments

pp. 162-163

Publication Data

pp. 164
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