Entirely self-taught and hailing from rural Idaho, artist James Castle produced an astonishing and prolific body of work with a remarkable visual and conceptual range. Born profoundly deaf in 1899, Castle's work was initially ‘discovered’ in the 1950s and 1960s, and has since been exhibited widely by major museums including a traveling retrospective organized in 2008 by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His favorite medium and method of working was developed as a child, when Castle began creating ‘ink’ by mixing stove soot with saliva and applying it with sharpened sticks and cotton to such found materials as product packaging and discarded paper.While Castle is sometimes referred to as a ‘folk’, ‘vernacular’ or ‘outsider’ artist, there is a profound sophistication in his work.Visually and artistically he was remarkably literate, deploying perspective, foreshortening, graphic elements, volume and weight, light and shadow in his work. His use of negative space, investigations of deconstructed forms, and the development of an abstract art based on geometric patterning and formal reduction, all place him well beyond the outsider artist realm. James Castle: Show and Store, an in-depth survey of James Castles work, will open at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid in May 2011. Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 full-colour reproductions, James Castle: Show and Store examines Castle’s drawings, colour-wash works, cardboard and paper constructions, and word, sign and symbol works.
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Suzanne Hudson is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Southern California. Her writing appears in various art historical journals, and she is the author of three other books.
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Hardcover. Etat : Like New. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> In recent years, one of the challenges undertaken by the Museo Reina Sofia has been to problematize some of the labels that have been assigned to artists and their practices throughout the twentieth century. Pigeonholes such as Outsider Art, Art Brut, or Naive Art serve to categorize artistic proposals yet pay little or no attention to their profound complexity. The Museo Reina Sofia is taking steps to eliminate boundaries such as the sepa- ration between what we call the "fine" arts and popular artistic practices. It is essen- tial to contribute to an art history that is not presented from a dominant position. Much has been written about artists such as James Castle, who have been marginal- ized within the traditional art historical discourse. Art historians have frequently assumed that self-taught artists lack commitment to their production and suffer from a lack of self-awareness. Castle was an artist with no academic training, he was profoundly deaf and never learned to read or write or to use sign language. Recent publications have focused more. N° de réf. du vendeur Batch-FM317-LN-7809
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Hardcover. Etat : New. For more than six decades, James Castle (1899-1977) dedicated himself virtually full-time to the activity of making art, producing a vast and accomplished body of work, much of which he managed to preserve. Growing up in rural Idaho, Castle devised his own art materials and techniques, making ink for drawing by moistening soot from the family stove with his own saliva and using discarded paper and other materials. In the 1950s, through the efforts of family members, Castle's work came to the attention of the local art community, and it began to be exhibited in Idaho and the Pacific Northwest, often under the rubric of outsider or self-taught art. Not until the late 1990s, however, did it appear in mainstream art circuits. Castle's work poses numerous challenges for the art historian. He was born profoundly deaf and never adopted conventional means of communication and thus never commented on his art. His works are neither titled nor dated, and it is difficult to trace an evolution or establish a chronology. As a result, previous scholarship has tended to focus on Castle's biography or on specific aspects of his oeuvre. James Castle: Show and Storetakes a different approach, looking at the entire scope of the artist's production--which included drawings, constructions made from found pieces of colored card and handmade books--and emphasizing the centrality of his display and storage methods to his practice. 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. 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 1977. (20111201). N° de réf. du vendeur 96136
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