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Hardback. New. <p><b>A fascinating new look at an extraordinary artist whose deafness led to an acute visual awareness and near photographic memory</b><br /><br /> Self-taught artist James Castle (1899â1977) 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.<br /><br /> 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…
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- Title James Castle: Memory Palace
- Author John Beardsley
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780300253498 / 0300253494
- Weight 3.53 lbs (1.60 kg)
- Dimensions 11.3 x 9.6 x 1.4 in (28.70 x 24.38 x 3.56 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Artists - United States, Artists with disabilities - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020042080
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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