Keith Mayerson: My American Dream
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Author: Mayerson, Keith
Keith Mayerson is inspired by symbols of American history and pop culture. In this survey, Mayerson constructs what he calls a 'wordless novel' for the 21st century: an alternate history in which the cultural landscape of American politics emphasises belonging and understanding. This book features hundreds of works from 1997 to 2021, replete with a foreword by cartoonist Gary Panter, an essay by painter Ann Craven and a conversation between Keith Mayerson and Celeste Dupuy-Spencer.He depicts familiar figures who have affected the country’s consciousness – in addition to personal scenes and his abstract 'iconscapes' – through microscopic brushstrokes and colouring. While his formal qualities hint at a French Impressionist influence, his images also evoke the spiritual and cultural commentary of the Symbolists as well as the more visionary aspects of American modernists and the Old Masters.Since the George W. Bush era, his long-running non-linear narrative 'My American Dream' has been presented in separate catalogues as 'chapters', and the ongoing series continues through today.
ISBN 9781949172836. Karma Books, New York. hb. 428 pages. 685 colour ills. 27.9 x 26 cm.
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Keith Mayerson is inspired by symbols of American history and pop culture. In this survey, Mayerson constructs what he calls a 'wordless novel' for the 21st century: an alternate history in which the cultural landscape of American politics emphasises belonging and understanding. This book features hundreds of works from 1997 to 2021, replete with a foreword by cartoonist Gary Panter, an essay by painter Ann Craven and a conversation between Keith Mayerson and Celeste Dupuy-Spencer.He depicts familiar figures who have affected the country’s consciousness – in addition to personal scenes and his abstract 'iconscapes' – through microscopic brushstrokes and colouring. While his formal qualities hint at a French Impressionist influence, his images also evoke the spiritual and cultural commentary of the Symbolists as well as the more visionary aspects of American modernists and the Old Masters.Since the George W. Bush era, his long-running non-linear narrative 'My American Dream' has been presented in separate catalogues as 'chapters', and the ongoing series continues through today.
ISBN 9781949172836. Karma Books, New York. hb. 428 pages. 685 colour ills. 27.9 x 26 cm.
available