Episode 28 - Herman Melville's Art History (Part 1)
We ended up doing a two-parter on Herman Melville's dive into art history without planning it as a two-parter. This is the first part.
Colourblindness, what's a whale, a whaling cat, Thomas Bewick, Guido Reni, gettin' yer waps out, leviathans, taxidermy, the Horniman walrus, platypus facts, Cuvier's squash, safer xenophobic ground (re: China), feed Pete's fetish, huge naturals, Ian Nairn.
This episode is the discussion about chapter 55 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
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