Cellophane Bricks - Jonathan Lethem

Cellophane Bricks

A Life in Visual Culture

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
2024
Ze Books (Verlag)
979-8-9886700-0-1 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
A rapturous, ravenous celebration of visual art and storytelling from one of our most innovative writers and critical minds.
Many know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novels—Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, among many others—play with genres and storytelling modes like a DJ mixing music. But Lethem grew up in his father’s studio, went to art school, and, in his own words, “made hundreds if not thousands of drawings, collages, paintings, hand-drawn comics, and even two animated shorts” before diverting, at nineteen, to prose. The surreal and form-defying panoply of his stories, essays, and novels celebrates—and mourns—this forsaken world of the visual and plastic arts. That leap, between the cellophane ephemerality of language and the brick-like tangibility of visual art, which operates as a sublimated wellspring for Lethem’s writing, is the subject of this book.

Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture mortars together Lethem’s fictions in response to (and in exchange for) artworks by his friends with dozens of original essays ranging from comics and graffiti art, to his collaborations with artists and interventions into visual culture, to his portrait of the museum that was and continues to be his home, untethered from geography. Unique in Lethem’s kaleidoscopic oeuvre, Cellophane Bricks comprises a kind of stealth memoir of his parallel life in visual culture. Gorgeously designed, with stunning, full-color images from the author’s own collection and elsewhere, Cellophane Bricks is a ravishing assemblage that makes the perfect gift for story lovers of all kinds.

Jonathan Lethem is the author of Brooklyn Crime Novel and twelve other novels. His stories and essays have been collected in five volumes, and his work translated into over thirty languages. He has been recipient of The National Book Critics Circle Award, The World Fantasy Award, The Berlin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches creative writing and contemporary fiction at Pomona College.

Table of Contents

008 Introduction: CELLOPHANE, BRICKS, FOG & CINDER / A Life in Material Culture

Fictions of Art

024 INTRODUCTION

028 THE SUBJECTIVE FOG / for Julian Hoeber

038 THE COLLECTOR / Fred Tomaselli

048 AN ALMOST PERFECT DAY / Letter to Bonn

054 RECIPROCITY OF ARTIFACTS: A DOMESTIC / Rachel Harrison

058 TRAVELER HOME / Martin & Munoz

068 THE BILLBOARD MEN / Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel

080 IMMACULATE KILLS / Alexis Rockman

084 STATIONS OF THE RELOCATED WITNESS / Gregory Crewdson

102 MISSING PERSONS: AN HOMAGE TO PERRY HOBERMAN

108 X, CURATOR / David Maisel

120 CELLOPHANE BRICKS: A FUGUE FOR MEMORY LOST / Nan Goldin

130 JIM SHAW KILLS

Graffiti and Comics

142 INTRODUCTION

148 ONE-TRACK MIND: ON PHIL COPPOLA

150 COVER THE CITY: GRAFFITI GRAPHOMANIA, OR, THE FLÂNEUR WITH TOURETTE’S / KEO, PRAY & Katie Merz

162 CRUNCH ROLLS / Introduction to Mascots & Mugs: The Characters and Cartoons of Subway Graffiti

166 THE ORGY OF THE REAL / Todd James

172 A FURTIVE EXCHANGE / Chester Brown

178 BLACK KRYPTONITE / A Script for Pettibon

188 20TH CENTURY VOMIT / Collaboration with Julia Jacquette

Book

196 INTRODUCTION

206 OBJECTIFIED BOOKS / Alexander Munn, Cynthia Winings, Charles Child & Me

222 THE RICHARD PRINCE STORIES

230 FIVE RUN-INS WITH ROSALYN DREXLER

246 GOD IN A SPRAY CAN / Robert Jimenez’s Ubik

252 SYLVIE SELIG

256 NOW IT CAN BE TOLD / For Tom Clark

Ecstasy

262 INTRODUCTION

266 ANDY MIRRORBALL (WARHOL)

272 TERMITE FOOTPRINTS / On Manny Farber’s Art Writing

286 A VOYAGE AROUND MIRELLA BENTIVOGLIO’S STONE TYPEWRITER

290 OVERHEARD AT THE INSTALLATION / For Charles Sheeler’s “Suspended Power”

299 THE SLEEVE SHOULD BE ILLEGAL For Hans Holbein theYounger’s “SirThomas More”

302 SEARCHING FOR UBLAND A Voyage to the Edges of My Disney Hyperartifact

At Home

326 INTRODUCTION

330 VINYL CIRCLE, ON MY WALL / Chad Gerth

334 FACES OF JEANNE AND TOM / On Living With a Forgotten Painter’s Masterpiece / Jeanne Redpath

344 THE SKIN OF REALITY / A Studio Visit with Kari Gatzke

350 JOYCEAN SLICES / Emily Joyce

354 ALL MY CHALDRONS

366 THE EASEL OF THE UNSEEN / Mark Johnson

374 HAZEL

378 COFFEEHEAD AND THE DECAYERS / Life in a Charles Long Sculpture Zone

392 MY FATHER HAS STARTED A PAINTING

402 ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF MY FATHER

408 CREDITS

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Full-color images from the author's art collection and elsewhere; 130 Illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-13 979-8-9886700-0-1 / 9798988670001
Zustand Neuware
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