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In John Mellencamp: American Paintings and Assemblages, a survey of
the artist s large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media pieces
documents America s heart and soul, revealing unsettling but
beautiful truths with a kind of anti-establishment frown and a rich
sense of narrative. A foreword by Dr. Lou Zona, Executive Director
and Chief Curator of The Butler Institute of American Art, and an
essay by New York Times critic and cultural writer David L. Shirey
put Mellencamp s work in context as a true American painter. As his
musical career flourished, Mellencamp began to paint in the 1980s
with an early affinity for portraiture influenced by the works of
Otto Dix and Max Beckmann. His kinship with the German
Expressionism of the early twentieth century, with its existential
focus on the human condition, serves as the foundation for the
development of Mellencamp s oeuvre. An interview by SPIN magazine
founder Bob Guccione Jr. further delineates the connection of
Mellencamp s music and art, both carefully composed through the
structural requirements of harmony, rhythm and order, and imbued
with the small-town, earnest voice of America s Heartland.
Tom Weschler spent more than ten years from the late 1960s through
the 1970s in the Bob Seger camp, working as tour manager and
photographer during Seger's hard-gigging, heavy-traveling,
reputation-making early days. Weschler's behind-the-scenes
photographs document the frustrations and triumphs of recording,
performing, songwriting, and building the Seger empire before the
breakthroughs of Live Bullet and Night Moves. Travelin' Man
collects Weschler's early photos with additional images leading
into the present. Weschler and award-winning music journalist Gary
Graff annotate the images with Weschler's recollections of the
events and Graff provides additional background on Seger's career
in an introduction, timeline, and cast of characters section.
Weschler's photographs and stories pull back the curtain on
seldom-seen aspects of Seger's career, including time in the studio
recording Mongrel, early struggles to get radio airplay, and small
shows at schools and shopping malls. Weschler captures Seger's
personality on stage and at home and reveals the colorful
personalities of those people he worked and performed with,
including Alice Cooper, Bruce Springsteen, Glenn Frey, and KISS. He
takes readers inside Seger headquarters in Birmingham, Michigan,
and practice space in Rochester, Michigan, introducing them to
renowned manager Punch Andrews and the various members of Seger's
bands. Weschler's photos feature highlights like Seger's show at
the Pontiac Silverdome in 1976, his first gold record in 1977, the
first meeting between Seger and Bruce Springsteen in 1978, and
Seger's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
Travelin' Man also contains art from eight Seger album covers that
Weschler designed, a foreword by John Mellencamp, an afterword by
Kid Rock, and a comprehensive discography. Seger fans and readers
interested in music and biography will enjoy the one of a kind
story in Travelin' Man.
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