The writer's brush
Subtitle: an exhibition of artwork by writers
By: Donald Friedman & John Wronoski ; introduction by Joseph McElroy
Contributors: Wronoski, John, author; McElroy, Joseph, writer of introduction; Anita Shapolsky Gallery; Pierre Menard Gallery
Edition: First edition 2014.
Publisher: Independent Publisher
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781467575584
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Authors as artists; Exhibitions; Authors; Painting; Drawing; Biography
Other titles: Exhibition of artwork by writers
Description: "Donald Friedman's internationally acclaimed book, The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers, brought together in one collection the visual art of more than 200 of the world's great writers. To celebrate its publication, he organized a modest exhibition of writer-art which, after enlisting rare bookseller and art dealer John Wronoski for help, was enlarged to include dozens of poets and writers somehow omitted from the book, and became a museum-scale show. The catalogue documents that historic exhibition. It opened at Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York. ... 264 pieces of art by 139 poets and writers were displayed, making it the most extensive show of writer-art ever mounted."--Jacket.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, in New York, New York from September 11 to October 27, 2007 and at the Pierre Menard Gallery, Brookline, Massachusetts, from December 5, 2007 to January 20, 2008.
Table of contents: title: Includes works by: Walter Abish, Rafael Alberti, Roberta Allen, A.R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Enid Bagnold, Amiri Baraka, Djuna Barnes, Julian Beck, Andrei Bely, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge L. Borges, Breyten Breytenbach, Charles Bukowski, Gelett (Frank) Burgess, David Burliuk, Josef Capek, Tom Clark, Daniel Clowes, Jean Cocteau, Norma Cole, Douglas Coupland, Jim Crace, e.e. cummings, Henry Darger, Annie Dillard, J.P. Donleavy, Rikki Ducornet, Lawrence Durrell, Russell Edson, Mary Fabilli, Jules Feiffer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri Ford, Kahlil Gibran, Louise Gluck, Alasdair Gray, Allen Ginsberg, Gunter Grass, Brion Gysin, Herman Hesse, Jack Hirschman, Susan Howe, Georges Hugnet, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Tama Janowitz, Charles Johnson, Donald Justice, Anna Kaven, Weldon Kees, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Maxine Hong Kingston, Bill Knott, Alfred Kubin, Jonathan Lethem, Mina Loy, Clarence Major, Robert Marshall, Henri Michaux, Henry Miller, Susan Minot, Walter Mosley, Hugh Nissenson, Clifford Odets, Kenneth Patchen, Sylvia Plath, Beatrix Potter, Annie Proulx, James Purdy, Kenneth Rexroth, Peter Sacks, William Saroyan, Maurice Sendak, Charles Simic, Patti Smith, William Jay Smith, Ralph Steadman and Hunter S. Thomson, Mark Strand, Igor Terentiev, James Thurber, Frederic Tuten, Josef Vachal, Janwillem Vandewetering, Kurt Vonnegut, Keith Waldrop, Derek Walcott, Rossanna Warren, Marjorie Welish, Denton Welsh, Richard Wilbur, Tennessee Williams, Stanis¿aw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), William Butler Yeats, and Unica Zurn.