James Castle
Subtitle: the experience of every day
By: Dennis Michael Jon
Contributors: Jon, Dennis Michael, author; Feldman, Kaywin, writer of introduction; Minneapolis Institute of Art
Publisher: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780996269926
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: "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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63).