James Castle : the experience of every day / Dennis Michael Jon.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Minneapolis : Minneapolis Institute of Art, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm

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    "James Charles Castle (1899-1977) was a brilliantly original American artist whose creative practice and daily life were intimately entwined. Born profoundly deaf, he spent his entire life with his parents and other family members on a succession of farmsteads in southwest Idaho. The geographic remoteness of his rural home and studio was amplified by a social isolation, as he never learned to read, write, speak, sign, or lip-read. Yet he discovered an abiding need and acumen for personal expression, born of his instinctive visual perception and anchored in his everyday experience. This exhibition explores Castle's extensive and highly inventive body of work: drawings, handmade books, collages, and three-dimensional constructions produced from found materials (scrap cardboard, paper, string, ribbon, advertising, food labels, and printed text) and invented media, tools, and techniques. Ingenious and engagingly improvisational, his work serves as a visual chronicle of his day-to-day experiences, an intimate record of life on his family's farm, and expression of his dreams, memories, and fantasies."--Minneapolis Institute of Art's website.
    Notes
    • "This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition 'James Castle: the Experience of Every Day,' organized and presented by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, May 21 through August 21, 2016."--Title page verso.
    • Director's foreword by Kaywin Feldman.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63).
    Contents
    • Director's foreword / Kaywin Feldman
    • "The experience of every day" / Dennis Michael Jon
    • Catalogue of works
    • James Castle: Chronology
    • Checklist of the exhibition.
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    Experience of every day
    ISBN
    • 9780996269926
    • 0996269924
    LCCN
    2015955647
    OCLC
    947124154
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