Untitled: The Art of James Castle

by Nicholas R. Bell and Leslie Umberger

James Castle (1899-1977) spent his formative years in remote Garden Valley, Idaho and his adult life at locations near Boise, where, for nearly seven decades, he devoted himself daily to intensive art-making. Castle worked with materials that were immediately available, including a wide range of ephemera--advertisements, periodicals, and packaging--that he manipulated with soot, sticks, string and improvised colors to create an elaborate and unmistakable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907804625
• ISBN13: 9781907804625
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Giles
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 10.3"