James Castle : Portrait of an Artist / First Run Features.

Born deaf in 1899 in rural Idaho—only nine years after that frontier territory was admitted to the Union—James Castle mined the local landscape of his family's homesteads and his own deeply private world to produce an astonishing body of drawings, collages, and constructions that eventually gained w...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors:	Infobase (Film distributor) First-Run Features (Firm)
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : First Run Features, [2009]
Series:	Films on Demand.
Subjects:	Art and architecture. Art appreciation. Artists. Internet videos.
Genre:	Internet videos.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (52 min., 39 sec)) : sound, color.
Format:	Electronic Video

Contents:

Who is James Castle? (2:35); Working with Soot and Other Recycled Material (4:28); Growing up on the Frontier (3:33); Castle Develops His Own Style (5:00); Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind (5:39); Evolution of Castle's Work (11:43); Wider ExposureFor Castle (2:30); Dream House (4:13); Bundling and Keeping a Journal (4:27); "His Own Art History" (3:22); Credits: James Castle Portrait of an Artist (4:39);