Pictures Showing What Happens On Each Page Of Thomas Pynchons Novel Gravitys Rainbow Revised Edition Zak Smith by Zak Smith, Steve Erickson (introduction) 9780977312788, 9780977312795, 097731278X, 0977312798 instant download after payment.

Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), set in an alternative-universe version of World War II, has been called a modern Finnegan’s Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, & fever-dream imagery. With Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, artist Zak Smith at once eases & expands readers’ experience of the book. A leading exponent of punk-based, DIY art, Smith here presents his most ambitious project to date — an art book exactly as long as the work it’s interpreting: 760 drawings, paintings, photos, & less definable images in 760 pages. Extraordinary tableaux of the detritus of war — a burned-out K?nigstiger tank, a melted machine gun — coexist alongside such phantasmagoric Pynchon inventions as the “stumbling bird” & “Girgori the octopus.” Smith has stated his aim to be “as literal as possible” in interpreting Gravity’s Rainbow, but his images are as imaginative & powerfully unique as the prose they honor.

Zak Smith was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1976. In addition to the Gravity’s Rainbow illustrations, which were shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial & are now in the collection of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Smith’s recent projects include the multipanel painting 100 Girls & 100 Octopuses & an ongoing series of portraits of friends & acquaintances in the sex industry entitled Girls in the Naked Girl Business as well as a number of stand-alone paintings & drawings, abstract & otherwise. His work has appeared in numerous publications worldwide & is held in many public & private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art & the Whitney Museum. He is a frequent contributor to several independent comics & zines, including Papingand See How Pretty, See How Smart. His first monograph, Zak Smith: Pictures Of Girls, was published in 2005.