By John Beardsley, foreword by Jacqueline Crist. Boise: James Castle Collection and Archive in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2021.

The first expansive monograph on an enigmatic self-taught artist, known for small, meticulously rendered soot and saliva drawings of domestic interiors, farm buildings, and landscapes, along with cardboard figural constructions and diminutive books filled with indecipherable text. Born deaf, Castle developed an extraordinary visual spatial memory that motivated his work through the entirety of his life.

“Admirably thorough and illuminating”

–Andrew Martin, New York Review of Books

Read Review by Andrew Martin, The New York Review, January 13, 2022

Read an interview with Beardsley about the book by Greg Smith in Antiques and the Arts Weekly, March 8, 2021.

Read an interview with Beardsley by David Ebony in the Yale University Press Blog, September 30, 2021.