{"product_id":"james-castle-by-john-beardsley-9780300253498","title":"James Castle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fascinating new look at an extraordinary artist whose deafness led to an acute visual awareness and near photographic memory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCastle 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 colour copies of illustrated advertisements for food, fuel, and matches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCastle 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeardsley 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished in association with the James Castle Collection and Archive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470979416300,"sku":"9780300253498","price":131.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300253498-james-castle.jpg?v=1775230703","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/james-castle-by-john-beardsley-9780300253498","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}