I'm a former employee (many years ago) of the Watson Library at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and recently published a book of my drawings.
I've pasted in a copy of the press release below. I'd be delighted if
members of the ARLIS list would go to the publisher's Web site at
www.hornbillpress.com and take a look! If you have any questions, you're
welcome to e-mail me.
David Reisman
The Hornbill Press
560 Riverside Drive, Suite 20-F
New York, NY 10027
USA
(212) 864-0846
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NOW AVAILABLE FROM
The Hornbill Press
www.hornbillpress.com
FOREIGN OBJECTS: Dream Drawings
by David Reisman
Foreign Objects is a compilation of pen-and-ink drawings, executed in
1995 and 1996, from artist/writer David Reisman's dream journals.
Surreal, funny, and at times unsettling, Reisman's drawings feature
friends and family, acquaintances, a variety of character types, and
celebrities including Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Bruce Springsteen, Patti
Smith, Jackson Pollock, and David Letterman. While Foreign Objects is a
kind of unconscious autobiography, the book may be seen as an effort, as
his brother Carl Reisman notes in his foreword, to "help us to build
bridges, however rickety, between our secret selves and consciousness,
and between our isolated selves and humanity."
Reading Foreign Objects is like visiting a Museum of Everyday Life
that's been broken down into its quantum state and reassembled as a
surrealist masterpiece! David Reisman's dream art is autobiography at
its most auto-luminescent.
- Rick Veitch, Author/artist of Rabid Eye: The
Dream Art of Rick Veitch
When Goya etched "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters" he wasn't
reading David Reisman's Foreign Objects. In this diary of dream moments,
Reisman illustrates many hilariously absurd situations that will leave
you laughing. Still, this book does produce a trance-like state where
the idea of someone half-submerged in floor boards seems as normal as,
say, George W. Bush being president of the United States. Hmmm, Goya was
right!
- Peter Kuper, Cartoonist
FOREIGN OBJECTS, Dream Drawings
by David Reisman
ISBN 0-9706407-2-2
First printing: November 2004
Trade paperback
200 pages 8.5" x 5.5"
US$14.95
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