John Mellencamp : American paintings and assemblages / foreword by Dr. Louis A. Zona ; essays by David L. Shirey, Bob Guccione Jr.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Rizzoli, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780847872343
- 0847872343
- American paintings and assemblages
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Longtime music icon John Mellencamp's artistic expression has never been limited to song.
The acclaimed singer-songwriter John Mellencamp has been an accomplished painter for more than four decades. This definitive survey--curated by Mellencamp himself--of his large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media assemblages documents America's heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with an antiestablishment frown and a rich sense of narrative.
"Although we may primarily know Mellencamp as a rock star, one of the highest-selling of all time and a Hall of Famer, he is also a great painter, as this book shows. Not a musician who also paints... No, John legitimately belongs in the modern art pantheon," says Bob Guccione Jr. in his essay that delineates the connection of Mellencamp's music and art, both imbued with the earnest voice of America's heartland.
A longtime icon in the music world, singer-songwriter John Mellencamp's artistic expression is not limited to song. He has also been an accomplished painter for more than four decades. This volume is a definitive exploration of the paintings and assemblages as curated by Mellencamp himself. In John Mellencamp : american paintings and assemblages, a survey of his large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media pieces documents America's heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with an anti-establishment frown and a rich sense of narrative.