The American Dream
by Robert Indiana

Artist: Robert Indiana

Size: 17 x 22 CM

Year: 1997

Condition: Very good

Frame: See description

Art Movements: other

Signature: Unsigned

Edition: 395

Price: POA

Added on: 2015-07-31

Medium: Screen-printing

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“The American Dream” is a limited book of collected works by artist Robert Indiana. With poetry By Robert Creely and text by Susan Ryan and Michael McKenzie, this is a magnificient, 17 x 22 inches, 100 pages retrospective fine art book that has taken two years in his making. It is silk screen printed on hand pulled Coventry 300 gram acid free neutral paper and worked on by the artist. Smyth sewn and casebound in leather, it includes six signed, removable images inserted "tip-in" - 24 additional serigraphs are bound in the text. Limited book (395 editions) Book size: 17 x 22 inches 100 pages (24 serigraphs bound in the text) Included : 6 Signed and numbered serigraphs

Robert Indiana

American painter, sculptor and printmaker. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1949–53), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (summer 1953) and Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art (1953–4), before settling in New York in 1954. There in the late 1950s he began assembling wood sculptures from found materials, often stencilling painted words on to them, as in Moon (h. 1.98 m, 1960; New York, MOMA). He called these works Herms after the quadrangular, stone stelae guardian figures that served as signposts in crossroads in ancient Greece and Rome. Indiana called himself a ‘sign painter’ to suggest the humble origins of his artistic activity in the American work ethic and to indicate his fascination with the use of words in signs. Joining his interest in Americana with the formal and signifying elements of signs, he visualized the superficial and illusory American Dream in paintings characterized by flat bright colours and clearly defined contours influenced by the hard-edge paintings by friends such as Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Youngerman (b 1926).

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