{"id":17207,"date":"2015-08-12T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=17207"},"modified":"2019-03-12T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T15:34:10","slug":"a-little-known-master-artists-uncollected-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/08\/a-little-known-master-artists-uncollected-works.html","title":{"rendered":"A Little-Known Master Artist’s ‘Uncollected’ Works"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The pages of Uncollected<\/em><\/a> illustrate the variety of the artworks that a little-known master artist produced over the years. Most of the pieces have appeared in scattered places but have never been collected in one place \u2014 thus the title. Norman O. Mustill<\/a>, who died in 2013, also produced many other works that haven\u2019t been collected or even seen by any but a few devotees, certainly not by art collectors. I\u2019m thinking, for example, of the blazing series of riotous wall-size collages made of billboards fragments that hung in his California living room back in the 1960s and are now stored away in a shed in Arizona. None of this is an accident. Mustill refused to play the \u201cart game.\u201d Nor did any arbiters of the art world come knocking on his door, which is hardly surprising. He shunned publicity, guarding his privacy at any cost. You certainly won\u2019t find much about him on the Internet. Less curmudgeon than extreme dissenter, he resembled William S. Burroughs in this respect: Nothing pleased him more than reaming out the human race. His compositions stopped you dead with their viciousness, not to mention their technical perfection and satirical intent. Which isn\u2019t to say he lacked a lightness of touch. He could lower the boom playfully when he liked. Consider the \u201cO\u201d in Norman O. Mustill. It stood for \u201cOgue,\u201d the middle name he took as a single-word manifesto against everything fashionable: Vogue \u2013 V = Ogue. If you were lucky enough to know him personally, as I did over many years, you\u2019d find yourself chortling in gales of laughter. He loved to entertain his friends by taking note of the world\u2019s solemnities and making exquisite fun of them. It was his supreme delight. Since so few people had seen his big pieces, I asked him to take some photos and send them to me. So he hauled a few out of storage, set them up on an easle, took a seat, and snapped a handful of time-delayed self-portraits. Here’s one:<\/p>\n

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Norman O. Mustill with one of his wall-size collages. This self-portrait was taken in 2007.<\/p><\/div>\n

Click to purchase UNCOLLECTED<\/em> in the US.<\/a><\/p>\n

Postscript:<\/strong> Cross-posted<\/a> at IT: International Times.
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