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James Castle : memory palace
- Title
- James Castle : memory palace / John Beardsley.
- Author
- Beardsley, John
- Publication
- Boise, Idaho : James Castle Collection and Archive ; New Haven, CT : in association with Yale University Press, [2021]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- James Castle Collection and Archive (Boise, Idaho), issuing body.
- Description
- 279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
- Summary
- "American artist James Castle inhabited a world of utter quiet, where the mundane became miraculous. Born to a family of homesteaders in the mountains of central Idaho in 1899, he was deaf from an early age. Perhaps not coincidentally, he developed an extraordinary visual and spatial memory. This gave him a dictionary of images of his home, farm, and valley that he replicated and manipulated for the rest of his life in a series of extraordinary soot and saliva drawings. Castle's particular environment and experience gave him access to other, more surprising sources for his art. His parents ran the local post office and store, which supplied an array of images from burgeoning early twentieth century print culture. He collected scrap paper and cardboard, which he cut up and stitched together into farm animals, furniture, and clothing. Castle spent several years at a school for the deaf, where he picked up only the rudiments of language. But he used his knowledge of letters, words, and multiple alphabets-some of his own devising-to create an arresting range of enigmatic text-based drawings. In this book, author John Beardsley delves into Castle's work as an expression of his acute capacity for remembering, managing, and improvising on visual information. Castle's work will be presented as if moving through a series of environments: inside, outside, landscape, figure, book. This allows us to imagine the visual and spatial world Castle inhabited. This publication will also be the first to include a definitive biography of the artist"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JQF 21-205
- ISBN
- 9780300253498
- 0300253494
- LCCN
- 2020042080
- OCLC
- 1152996717
- Author
- Beardsley, John, author.
- Title
- James Castle : memory palace / John Beardsley.
- Publisher
- Boise, Idaho : James Castle Collection and Archive ; New Haven, CT : in association with Yale University Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- James Castle Collection and Archive (Boise, Idaho), issuing body.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 21-205