Episode 29 - Herman Melville's Art History (Part 2)
It's part two of our look at Herman Melville's art history of whales.
Thomas Beale's dwarf whales, Melville Marginalia, the whole internet loves Ambrose Louis Garneray, we regret to inform you Ambrose Louis Garneray is a slaver, prison hulks, the insignificance of harpoons, H. Durand, depictions of whaling, Melville enters the cosmos, famous beggars, the reproduction of reality, Joseph Johnson with a ship on his head, authenticity, Albrecht Dürer, JFK's scrimshaw collection, magnificent desolation, Magic Eye, the constellations, men's mental health, Vishnu as leviathan.
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