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Ann Percy (Editor)

James Castle: A Retrospective

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Ann Percy (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23014

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BOOKJames Castle: A Retrospective

Ann Percy (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00328

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23009

James Castle (1899–1977) never learned to speak, read, or write—and left his native state of Idaho only once—and yet he created a wide range of extraordinary works that resonate with much of 20th-century art. This book offers the first critical exploration of the many creative genres of this self-taught artist, who first came to notice in the 1950s and 1960s but has only recently been recognized by major museums.

This book examines Castle’s drawings, color-wash works, idiosyncratic cardboard and paper constructions, and word, sign, and symbol pieces. As a child he developed his favorite medium and method of working, mixing stove soot with saliva and applying this “ink” with sharpened sticks and cotton wads to such found materials as product packaging and discarded paper. These everyday materials have given his works a singular, immediate, and appealing natural quality.

This engaging volume considers Castle’s remarkable art from a variety of perspectives, examining his life, modes of depiction, working methods and materials, and the “visual poetry” of his text works.

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Ann Percy (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Print publication date November 2008 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300137309

EISBN 9780300272192

Illustrations 434

Print Status out of print

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