1. Joe Brainard was an American artist and writer associated with the New York School.
15 Facts About Joe Brainard
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In particular, Brainard broke new ground in using comics as a poetic medium in his collaborations with other New York School poets.
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Joe Brainard was born on March 11,1942, in Salem, Arkansas, spent his childhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and moved to New York City in 1960.
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The 18-year-old Joe Brainard joined the journal as its art editor after fellow Central High classmate Padgett sent Joe Brainard an anonymous Christmas card praising his work.
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Joe Brainard began a relationship with Kenward Elmslie which lasted much of his life, despite having other lovers.
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Joe Brainard found much success as an artist, until he removed himself from the art-world in the early 1980s.
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Joe Brainard devoted the last years of his life to reading.
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Joe Brainard began his career during the early Pop Art era, and while his work has a certain affinity with Pop Art, it does not fit the definition of the genre:.
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The inimitability of Joe Brainard's work is located partly in its resistance to categorization, in its breadth, and in its rapport with and awe of the quotidian:.
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Particularly in the collages, drawings and small works on paper, Joe Brainard transformed the everyday into something revelatory:.
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Not surprisingly, along with this gift for distillation, Joe Brainard had an uncanny eye for essential, revelatory detail; these contribute to the vivid immediacy and spontaneity of his work.
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Distillation, specificity, and a keen sense of intimate scale allowed Joe Brainard to locate the extraordinary in the ordinary and, curiously, something like the reverse; he could, with Nancy's help, make the extraordinary seem ordinary.
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Joe Brainard's I Remember radically departs from the conventions of the traditional memoir.
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The Mandeville Special Collections Library at UCSD has a large archive of works by and about Joe Brainard collected by Robert Butts from 1960 to 1992.
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Joe Brainard did sets and costumes for the Louis Falco Dance Troupe and the Joffrey Ballet Company.