{"product_id":"john-mellencamp-isbn-9780847872343","title":"John Mellencamp","description":"\u003cb\u003eLongtime music icon John Mellencamp’s artistic expression has never been limited to song.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“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.\"JOHN MELLENCAMP: AMERICAN PAINTINGS AND ASSEMBLAGES is the definitive survey—curated by the artist himself—of Mellencamp’s oeuvre as an expressionist painter, grabbing our attention through the canvas. . .Full of self-portraits made over the years as well as portraits of other well-known subects—including Marlon Brando, Johnny Cash, and Meg Ryan—as well as a variety of everyday people, Mellencamp’s art is storytelling at its finest.\" —BACKSTAGEAXXESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJohn Mellencamp: American Painting and Assembledges\u003c\/i\u003e is a self-curated book documenting 'America’s heart and soul' with an 'anti-establishment frown.' The book features 170 original works, essays from David L. Shirley and Bob Guccione Jr, and a forward written by Dr. Louis A. Zona.\" —AMERICAN SONGWRITER\u003cb\u003eJohn Mellencamp, \u003c\/b\u003eaward-winning singer-songwriter and member of the Rock \u0026amp; Roll Hall of Fame,\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis also a painter, collector, and longtime activist who has exhibited his work in galleries and museums across the United States. \u003cb\u003eDr. Louis A. Zona\u003c\/b\u003e is the executive director and chief curator of the Butler Institute of American Art, in Youngstown, Ohio. \u003cb\u003eDavid L. Shirey\u003c\/b\u003e is a former foreign correspondent, critic, and editor with \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, a critic and cultural writer for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and former chair of the MFA Fine Arts program at New York City’s School of Visual Arts. Award-winning editor and publisher \u003cb\u003eBob Guccione Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e has created and managed some of America’s most iconic publishing brands, including \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and \u003ci\u003eGear\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.","brand":"Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300142633189,"sku":"NP9780847872343","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780847872343.jpg?v=1767730446","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/john-mellencamp-isbn-9780847872343","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}