FOREIGN OBJECTS is a compilation of pen-and-ink drawings 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 the author's brother Carl Reisman notes in his foreword, to "help us build bridges, however rickety, between our isolated selves and humanity."
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.... 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
In this diary of dream moments, Reisman illustrates many hilariously absurd situations that will leave you laughing. -- Peter Kuper, Cartoonist
Ironically, I have found his book helpful in stimulating my own dream recall. I keep it on the nightstand... -- Richard Russo in Dream Time, October 2005
In this diary of dream moments, Reisman illustrates many hilariously absurd situations that will leave you laughing. -- Peter Kuper, Cartoonist
Ironically, I have found his book helpful in stimulating my own dream recall. I keep it on the nightstand... -- Richard Russo in Dream Time, October 2005
About the Author
David Reisman is an artist and writer who lives in New York City. He is also a Senior Editor in the Educational Publishing Department of Thirteen/WNET New York.
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David Reisman is an artist, writer and editor who lives in New York City. He grew up in Rochester, New York and Memphis, Tennessee; studied art at the University of Kansas, Reading University, and the University of Illinois; and earned a doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Reisman has exhibited his artwork in New York, London and Berlin and has published his writing about art in Frieze Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, Millennium Film Journal, Artscribe, and Tema Celeste. For more information, please visit www.davidreisman.com.
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In David Reisman's wonderful new book, he continues a tradition of interpreting dreams but with his own original twist. For centuries ancient cultures and artists have seen the dream as a source for predicting the future or a way to unlock subconscious fears and desires. Reisman has set out to illustrate them through drawing and text with the neutral vision of a painter as he views a still life. He often uses the absurdity of odd juxtapositions that most of us witness in our own dreams. Famous people (Bob Dylan, George Bush, Jackson Pollock) play parts in the ordinary settings of Reisman's nocturnal wanderings. The dangerous situations that he dreams of are subverted by humor as a much needed escape. Maybe Reisman's dreams are not far from our own daily realities where we attempt to calm our anxieties with a healthy sense of humor.
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I love this book! I keep it on display in my living room, so friends can discover it too. People say that nothing is as boring as another person's dreams, but David Reisman's drawings capture the flavor and content of his dreams in a way that's touching, truthful, and funny - sometimes all at once. Don't expect New Yorker-style cartoons with zippy punchlines - but do expect to smile a lot and laugh out loud.
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