Bob Dylan will highlight one other aspect of his inventive output this fall with “Level Clean (Fast Research),” a brand new artwork e-book set for launch on Nov. 18 from Simon & Schuster.
The gathering brings collectively almost 100 of Dylan’s black-and-white drawings from 2021 and 2022, providing a uncommon, behind-the-scenes have a look at works that initially served as research for bigger work in his Level Clean collection.
The drawings, which vary from portraits and nonetheless lifes to city landscapes and fleeting moments, mirror Dylan’s sharp observational eye. Topics embody roller-skating lovers, a karaoke singer, a canal in Paris, a go well with of armor, and even a easy roll of Scotch tape. Every bit is accompanied by prose vignettes from Eddie Gorodetsky, Jackie Hamilton, and Lucy Sante, including context to the artist’s acquainted ambiguous storytelling. Sean Manning, editorial director at Simon & Schuster, describes the gathering as capturing “contradictory feelings in a single picture—harmless and world-weary, joyous and forlorn, humorous and sensual, enigmatic and acquainted.”
Dylan’s work as a visible artist has long term parallel to his legendary music profession. His drawings and work have appeared on album covers as early as “Self Portrait and Planet Waves,” and his gallery profession formally took form with the Drawn Clean collection, first exhibited in 2007. Over the previous 20 years, Dylan’s visible output has expanded by way of exhibitions within the U.S. and Europe, with critics usually noting how his work and drawings echo the lyricism and layered symbolism of his songwriting.
The discharge of “Level Clean” will coincide with the primary unabridged audiobook version of “Chronicles: Quantity One,” Dylan’s celebrated 2004 memoir, learn by Sean Penn. Pre-order the autumn launch on Amazon for $45.
