Catalog of an exhibit held at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York City. Preface by John Ashbery. Essay by Robert Rosenblum. Includes 15 reproductions (oil paintings, watercolors and gouaches, ink and pencil drawings, collages, mixed media and assemblages) and well as a full-length photographic portrait of the artist.

Joe Brainard Retrospective: March 20 through April 19, 1997

Joe Brainard

Tibor De Nagy Gallery

From 1963 to 1978, Joe Brainard created more than 100 artworks that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into a variety of astonishing situations. The Nancy Book is the first collection of Brainard's Nancy texts, drawings, collages and paintings, with full page reproductions of more than 50 works, several of which have never been exhibited or published before.

Joe Brainard: The Nancy Book

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Siglio

An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work I Remember ("a completely original book" -Edmund White) has had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this major new retrospective with many other pieces that for the first time present the full range of Brainard's writing in all its deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness, self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit. The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard gathers intimate journals, jottings, stories, one-liners, comic strips, mini-essays, and short plays, many of them available until now only as expensive rarities, if at all. "Brainard disarms us with the seemingly tossed- off, spontaneous nature of his writing and his stubborn refusal to accede to the pieties of self-importance," writes Paul Auster in the introduction to this collection. "These little works . . . are not really about anything so much as what it means to be young, that hopeful, anarchic time when all horizons are open to us and the future appears to be without limits." Assembled by the author's longtime friend and biographer Ron Padgett and including fourteen previously unpublished works, here is a fresh and affordable way to rediscover a unique American artist.

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard: A Library of America Special Publication

Library of America

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Joe Brainard Retrospective: March 20 through April 19, 1997

Joe Brainard: The Nancy Book

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard: A Library of America Special Publication