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Untitled: The Art of James Castle
Nicholas R Bell
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Description for Untitled: The Art of James Castle
Hardcover. A remarkable insight into the world of one of the most enigmatic American artists of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 127 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 752.
James Castle (1899-1977) spent his formative years in remote Garden Valley, Idaho and his adult life at locations near Boise, where, for nearly seven decades, he devoted himself daily to intensive art-making. Castle worked with materials that were immediately available, including a wide range of ephemera-advertisements, periodicals, and packaging-that he manipulated with soot, sticks, string and improvised colours to create an elaborate and unmistakable representation of his world. Subjects range from the farms of Garden Valley and interiors of homes, to family members, household objects, and snippets of popular culture. Other works move beyond the documentary to include invented. ... Read more
James Castle (1899-1977) spent his formative years in remote Garden Valley, Idaho and his adult life at locations near Boise, where, for nearly seven decades, he devoted himself daily to intensive art-making. Castle worked with materials that were immediately available, including a wide range of ephemera-advertisements, periodicals, and packaging-that he manipulated with soot, sticks, string and improvised colours to create an elaborate and unmistakable representation of his world. Subjects range from the farms of Garden Valley and interiors of homes, to family members, household objects, and snippets of popular culture. Other works move beyond the documentary to include invented. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
GILES
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
127
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907804625
SKU
V9781907804625
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