A Mythic Obsession: The World of Dr. Evermor

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The greatest outsider artist you’ve never heard of. A Mythic Obsession tells of Dr. Evermor — Tom Every (1938–2022), the Wisconsin industrial wrecker who spent decades building the Forevertron: the world’s largest scrap-metal sculpture, a Victorian spaceship of gears and lightning rods rising from a marsh outside Madison.

Every was no naïf but a visionary engineer of dreams: his sculpture park is a full-scale mythology in steel, complete with a telescope to heaven and a choir of metal birds. This book — part biography, part guided tour — captures the man and his magnificent obsession with affection, awe, and wonderful photographs.

For lovers of outsider art and American eccentrics: pure joy. The Forevertron has to be seen to be believed; this book is the next best thing — and an inspiration. Every’s Forevertron is America’s strangest masterpiece: this book does it proud. Weird, wonderful, and weirdly moving. A delight.

Somewhere in rural Wisconsin stands the Forevertron — the world’s largest scrap-metal sculpture, a Victorian spaceship built from industrial salvage by a man who called himself Dr. Evermor. In A Mythic Obsession, Tom Kupsh tells the extraordinary story of Tom Every, the visionary artist behind it.

Drawing on years of research and firsthand access, Kupsh traces Every’s transformation from demolition expert into Dr. Evermor, creator of hundreds of whimsical welded sculptures — birds, beasts, and machines — that turned a junkyard into a wonderland. With 200 photographs, this beautifully illustrated volume captures the humor, imagination, and mythic ambition of one of America’s great outsider artists.

Published by Chicago Review Press, A Mythic Obsession: The World of Dr. Evermor is a must for lovers of visionary art, folk environments, and American originals. Part biography, part art book, it celebrates a man who saw poetry in scrap metal — and built his dreams to last forever.

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