Robert Indiana: An American Icon

Created in close collaboration with The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, this landmark volume invites readers to rediscover Indiana through more than 450 career-spanning images of his paintings, sculpture, and works on paper; rare archival materials, and facsimiles of Indiana s handwritten journals with sketches.

Robert Indiana is one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. Emerging in the 1960s, his bold work explored themes of American identity, personal narrative, and the power of color, form, and language. Known for his contributions to Pop art, assemblage, and hard-edge painting and sculpture, Indiana was deeply attuned to the historical, linguistic, and psychological structures that have shaped America s identity.

This book is a comprehensive survey of his life and career. A foreword by Simon Salama-Caro, a longtime steward of Indiana s work, provides personal reflections on the artist and a revelatory suite of essays by leading art historians offers new insights situating his work with greater clarity within the broader narrative of art history. While Indiana is widely known for his iconic image LOVE, created in 1964, this book uncovers the deeper dimensions of his practice, revealing an artist whose work challenged the idealized image of the American Dream and elevated language into a precise and powerful art form.

Meticulously produced, the book includes previously unpublished materials, offering a fuller understanding of Indiana s legacy. With images of career-spanning work, an insert facsimile of the artist s handwritten journals, a sweeping illustrated chronology, and expansive gatefolds, this book is a reintroduction to a vital American voice, seen in full.