MARK WILLIAM PEARSON | DATE 10/3/2016

Wallace Berman: American Aleph

Influential force-of-nature Beat generation Renaissance man Wallace Berman was one of America's first assemblage artists as well as a trailblazing photographer, writer, filmmaker, actor, proto-zine publisher, and designer of jazz album covers. While his indelibility was secured when his face appeared next to Tony Curtis on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, it's his art that endures. With a focus on his Verifax collages (my favorite of his work), this opulently printed book is the perfect take-home on an American visionary who was as deeply religious as he was unorthodox. Featured image is "Untitled (Sound Series #3)", c. 1967-68.