
JOHN MELLENCAMP - AMERICAN PAINTINGS AND ASSEMBLAGES - HARDCOVER - BOOK
The acclaimed singer-songwriter John Mellencamp has been an accomplished painter for more than four decades. This definitive surveyācurated by Mellencamp himselfāof his large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media assemblages documents Americaās heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with an antiestablishment frown and a rich sense of narrative.
āAlthough 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,ā says Bob Guccione Jr. in his essay that delineates the connection of Mellencampās music and art, both imbued with the earnest voice of Americaās heartland.
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The acclaimed singer-songwriter John Mellencamp has been an accomplished painter for more than four decades. This definitive surveyācurated by Mellencamp himselfāof his large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media assemblages documents Americaās heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with an antiestablishment frown and a rich sense of narrative.
āAlthough 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,ā says Bob Guccione Jr. in his essay that delineates the connection of Mellencampās music and art, both imbued with the earnest voice of Americaās heartland.











