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A Nimbus of Unapproachability Photograph - Limited Edition of 5

Terry Castle

United States

Photography, Digital on Paper

Size: 16 W x 16 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Cleaning out the basement, I recently discovered a trunk full of very mouldy and water-damaged handouts that I had made for a Literature of Lesbianism class I taught over twenty years ago. Most were either facsimiles of or excerpts from now mostly-forgotten or out-of-print works of lesbian fiction from the early twentieth century. The pages had decayed quite calamitously but nonetheless also struck me as rather evocative of the fragile, obscured, often taboo subject matter they addressed. I began photographing individual pages and then manipulating them post facto: the one here is from *Despised and Rejected*, a 1916 British novel published by a woman under the pseudonym ‘Rose Allatini’. I added the glitchy elements to suggest the illegibility, skittishness and refusal that still surround the topic of female same-sex love even in our supposedly ‘liberated’ modern society.

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Digital on Paper

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5

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16 W x 16 H x 0.1 D in

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The writer, critic, and visual artist Terry Castle--once described by the late Susan Sontag as '"the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today'--- has taught at Stanford University since 1983. Her scholarly interests include literature and the visual arts,, the history of photography, modernism, Gothic fiction, Jane Austen, English art and culture of the 1920s and 1930s, gay and lesbian writing, and autobiography and memoir, She has published nine books on diverse subjects, including the prize-winning collection, The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall (2003). She is also a well-known essayist and has written frequently for the London Review of Books, the Atlantic, Slate, the New Republic, Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review, and other periodicals. Her latest collection of essays, The Professor and Other Writings, was published by HarperCollins in 2010. She has written about art--particularly photography, the Bloomsbury Group, Agnes Martin and Georgia O'Keeffe, and Outsider Art--in various major publications. Art plays an increasingly important role in Castle's creative life. As an artist she works in collage and mixed media, photography, gouache and acrylic, chalk pastel, and digital imagery. A number of her works have been reproduced in magazines and she has provided cover imagery for several trade and university Publishers in both the U.K. and the U.S.. In her spare time, she is a music, book and postcard collector and a miniature dachshund enthusiast. She lives in San Francisco. (my artwork blog), castle/cgi-bin/wordpress/ (my personal and professional website), A blog devoted to my postcard, vernacular photography, and ephemera collections.

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