Largest creative work

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The largest creative work is the largest or longest item in different fields of creative works. Some pieces were created with the specific intention of holding the record while others have be recognised for their size after completion.

1 Media
2 See also
3 References

[edit] Media

[edit] Literature

A page from the largest general encyclopedia, the Yongle Encyclopedia.

The longest novel in Latin or Cyrillic alphabets is Henry Darger's The Story of the Vivian Girls. The illustrated fantasy novel manuscript is typed single-spaced on 15,145 pages in 10 volumes. Discovered after Darger's death, the manuscript has never been published. The total number of words has not been estimated; some believe this might be the longest novel ever written. The most conservative guess will put this in the million-word realm, possibly into tens of millions.
The largest known general encyclopedia is the Yongle Encyclopedia commissioned by the Chinese Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle in 1403. It comprised 22,877 manuscript volumes in 11,095 books occupying 40 cubic metres (1400 ft³), but has since disappeared.
The longest poem in any language is the Mahabharata, with more than 100,000 couplets.
The longest epic cycle is the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar, which contains over 20 million words in more than one million verses.

[edit] Music

The longest musical performance began on 5 September 2001 and is set to last for 639 years. The first audible note of John Cage's As Slow As Possible was not actually heard until 5 February 2003.^[1]

[edit] Paintings and sculptures

A section of the Fiori di Como, the largest glass sculpture.

The largest painting by a single-artist is David Aberg's 86,000 square foot Mother Earth, made inside an aircraft hangar in southern Sweden.^[2]
The longest painting was created by over 3,000 students in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and measured 2,978.4 metres (9,771.6 feet) when completed on 21 March 2005.^[3]
The largest glass sculpture is Fiori di Como by Dale Chihuly, found on the ceiling of the lobby for Las Vegas's Bellagio hotel. It measures 2,000 square feet.^[4]

[edit] Theatre, film and television

The Cure for Insomnia, directed by John Henry Timmis IV, is officially the world's longest film. Running 5,220 minutes (87 hours) in length, the film is a documentary performance of artist L. D. Groban reading his lengthy poem "A Cure for Insomnia" over the course of three and a half days, spliced with occasional clips from heavy metal and pornographic videos.^[5]
The longest running U.S. television series is Meet the Press, which started on 6 November 1947 and continues today.