An Artist's America - Michael Albert

For: All ages
Published: 2008
Rating : 5 YES! My kind of book...
48 pgs.
17.95
Endpapers: Med. Blue

Mosaic collagees from recycled consumer product boxes and labels - cereal, tea, cookies, popsicles, soup. Easy. Pop art. Very cool.

Told in the first person, Michael Albert tells about his artistic journey, detailing how he got to where he is now. He shows dozens of his works,explaining the whys and hows. Flags made from Coca-Cola and Frosted Flakes boxes, cutting and pasting a postcard of the Empire State Building. Slightly reaearranging pieces of a Frosted Flakes box; Cheerios and Trix, Captain Crunch and A to Z candy wrappers and even dollar bills! He then shows his "epic works" which are really creative, fascinating and time-consuming, including the Gettysburg Address, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a Mt. Rushmore made of Mr Clean, the Quaker Oats guy, Captain Crunch, and Colonel Sanders. He's even done a collage of the first 190 digits of Pi!

At the end of the book he shows his workshops with kids and simply tells how to do it yourself.

This book is a real winner. I want to see some of his originals! www.michaelalbert.com