American Utopia
David Byrne
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
American Utopia
David Byrne
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
... impressionistic, sweetly illustrated.
You’re buying a lot of white space.
This selection of Byrne’s lyrics accompanied by Kalman’s illustrations captures the spirit of the show. As readers page through the book and savor the words, the pictures fairly leap off the page.
... like life itself, consists of small moments adding up to a gentle portrait of humanity.
... snippets of Talking Heads frontman Byrne’s lyrics jump and skip across pages, illustrated with watercolor sunniness by Kalman.
... a slim, suggestive volume, with sparing use of words amid the stark imagery. At times, it feels like Byrne is channeling the aphoristic, sloganeering spirit of Truisms, the shifting-viewpoint series of maxims by conceptual artist Jenny Holzer.