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"American artist James Castle inhabited a world of utter quiet, where the mundane became miraculous. Born to a family of homesteaders in the mountains of central Idaho in 1899, he was deaf from an early age. Perhaps not coincidentally, he developed an extraordinary visual and spatial memory. This gave him a dictionary of images of his home, farm, and valley that he replicated and manipulated for the rest of his life in a series of extraordinary soot and saliva drawings. Castle's particular environment and experience gave him access to other, more surprising sources for his art. His parents ran the local post office and store, which supplied an array of images from burgeoning early twentieth ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Iasi, Romania, the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of a hospital. Deaf and mute, he is unable to communicate until a young nurse called Safta brings paper and pencils with which he can draw. Slowly, painstakingly, memories appear on the page. The memories are Safta's also. For the man is Augustin, son of the cook at the manor house which was Safta's family home. Born six months apart, they grew up with a connection that bypassed words. But while Augustin's world remained the same size Safta's expanded to embrace languages, society - and a fleeting love, one long, hot summer. But then came war, and in its wake a brutal Stalinist regime, and nothing would remain the same.
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Entirely self-taught and hailing from rural Idaho, artist James Castle produced an astonishing and prolific body of work with a remarkable visual and conceptual range. Born profoundly deaf in 1899, Castle's work was initially 'discovered' in the 1950s and 1960s, and has since been exhibited widely by major museums including a traveling retrospective organized in 2008 by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His favorite medium and method of working was developed as a child, when Castle began creating 'ink' by mixing stove soot with saliva and applying it with sharpened sticks and cotton to such found materials as product packaging and discarded paper.While Castle is sometimes referred to as a 'fol...
Definitive biography of the autistic, self-taught, "Outsider" artist bookmaker James C. Castle (1899-1977).
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