Isbn: 9781935202707 - james castle: show and store (2 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. 224 pages with color illustrations. Though still in shrink-wrap there might be small minor bumps to the corners and edges underneath the plastic. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, from May 18 - September 5, 2011. Select Biography. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> In recent years, one of the challenges undertaken by the Museo Reina Sofia has been to problematize some of the labels that have been assigned to artists and their practices throughout the twentieth century. Pigeonholes such as Outsider Art, Art Brut, or Naive Art serve to categorize artistic proposals yet pay little or no attention to their profound complexity. The Museo Reina Sofia is taking steps to eliminate boundaries such as the sepa- ration between what we call the "fine" arts and popular artistic practices. It is essen- tial to contribute to an art history that is not presented from a dominant position. Much has been written about artists such as James Castle, who have been marginal- ized within the traditional art historical discourse. Art historians have frequently assumed that self-taught artists lack commitment to their production and suffer from a lack of self-awareness. Castle was an artist with no academic training, he was profoundly deaf and never learned to read or write or to use sign language. Recent publications have focused more.…