1997
Taking two years to complete, this stunning 100-page work is a compendium of Indiana's masterpieces, alongside the poetry of fellow avant-garde artist Robert Creeley, who first collaborated with Indiana in 1968 on the publication of Numbers.
The American Dream represents the completion of the cycle that launched Indiana's career, following EAT, Love and Numbers. These works display Indiana's appropriation of advertising to create a new art in the 1960s, using single but powerfully symbolic words. Notable images included are: The American Dream, Love, Marilyn Monroe/Norma Jean Mortenson, Twenty-five: Highball, Redball Manifest, One Indiana Square and Picasso.
The work is presented as a beautiful set of thirty screenprints and poems and the large-format text is presented with a foreword by Susan Ryan and captions by Michael McKenzie describing the significance of each piece.
The complete portfolio of 30 screenprints in colours (24 bound in and six removable as issued), each signed and numbered in pencil, number 10 of 30 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 395, printed on hand-pulled Coventry 300 gram acid free paper, presented in the publisher's original white cardboard printed box and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the studio and signed by Robert Indiana, folio 57 x 44.5 cm. (22½ x 17½ in.)
The American Dream represents the completion of the cycle that launched Indiana's career, following EAT, Love and Numbers. These works display Indiana's appropriation of advertising to create a new art in the 1960s, using single but powerfully symbolic words. Notable images included are: The American Dream, Love, Marilyn Monroe/Norma Jean Mortenson, Twenty-five: Highball, Redball Manifest, One Indiana Square and Picasso.
The work is presented as a beautiful set of thirty screenprints and poems and the large-format text is presented with a foreword by Susan Ryan and captions by Michael McKenzie describing the significance of each piece.
The complete portfolio of 30 screenprints in colours (24 bound in and six removable as issued), each signed and numbered in pencil, number 10 of 30 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 395, printed on hand-pulled Coventry 300 gram acid free paper, presented in the publisher's original white cardboard printed box and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the studio and signed by Robert Indiana, folio 57 x 44.5 cm. (22½ x 17½ in.)
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