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James Castle - Memory Palace (Hardcover)
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James Castle - Memory Palace (Hardcover)
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A fascinating new look at an extraordinary artist whose deafness
led to an acute visual awareness and near photographic memory
Self-taught artist James Castle (1899-1977) is primarily known for
soot and saliva drawings of meticulously rendered domestic
interiors and farm scenes, along with fantastical figures, animals,
and architectural constructions made of cardboard and stitched
paper. Castle was born into a family of homesteaders in Idaho, and
his visual world comprised variations of seemingly ordinary
subjects: rural landscapes, houses, barns, and outbuildings;
interiors with closed and open doors, beds, bureaus, tile floors,
and minutely patterned wallpaper; and color copies of illustrated
advertisements for food, fuel, and matches. Castle was a deaf
artist who by most accounts never learned to read, write, or speak.
In this remarkable book, author John Beardsley discusses how these
limitations led to the development of an extraordinary memory, an
ability that enabled him to create a large number of distinctly
intelligent artworks. Beardsley follows Castle's work as if through
a series of rooms (a "Memory Palace")-interiors, exteriors,
objects, books, and words-reproducing many previously unknown works
and referencing other documents made available for the first time
from the James Castle Collection and Archive. Published in
association with the James Castle Collection and Archive
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