James Castle: Show and Store
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935202707 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not until the late 1990s, however, did it appear in mainstream art circuits. The essays in this volume also question the notion of Castle as an artist who worked in isolation from the world at large, examining his copying and reuse of images derived from printed media, including advertising and product packaging, and perhaps even television. Castle's work poses numerous challenges for the art historian. Illustrated with more than 200 full-color reproductions, Show and Storeexamines drawings, handmade books, cardboard and paper constructions and collages.Born profoundly deaf, James Castle (1899-1977) never fully learned to read or write, instead developing his own unique sign system and visual vocabulary. He won some local acclaim during his lifetime (including 1963 and 1976 exhibitions at the Boise Gallery of Art) but only achieved international recognition after his death in
Five Stars mark s. mccomber Pairs well with with james castle his life and art I would buy both.
If there were a job application for America's archetypal "outsider artist," James Castle could check almost all the appropiate boxes: Deaf, illiterate, untrained, and undiscovered until he reached his fifties, he lived his entire life (he died in 1977) on a farm in Idaho. The reproductions are gorgeous, and the work catalogued within-from a show of Castle's work at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Spain-is eminently inspiring and moving…. (Bookforum)I can't remember being as excited by an art book as I was by James
Lynne Cooke is Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid and Curator at Large for Dia Art Foundation.