Shanghaied
Gary Goldstein
1993
The books colors were the result of using liquid, inks and water colors, and changed during the course of working on the entire book. In retrospect, there is such a feeling of a bathing discomfort and dissonance. I was 33 years, and still in the throes of an overwhelming sex drive. Yet, the feeling of the book deals with intestines, with something that is internal, but in the book becomes external. A feeling of both discomfort and venerability.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 158
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 18.5X12.5X2
- Publication: Independent
- Place of publication: Jerusalem
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Gary Goldstein was born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA (1950) and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is an artist and a lecturer of Visual Arts. He completed his M.F.A. in Visual Arts at “Pratt Institute”, Brooklyn, NY, USA (1977). Goldstein Immigrated to Israel in 1977 and was a member of Kibbutz Afikim for four years. He established a Fine Arts program in the Jordan Valley regional High school “Beit Yerach”. From 2012 to the present, he resides and creates art in Tel Aviv. Gary Goldstein concentrated during the decade of the 1980s on creating around 150 unique Artists’ Books. 14 out of them were published in limited additions of 14 to 1,000 copies. From the 1990s Goldstein draws mostly on pages of secondhand books. He created hundreds of three-dimensional objects. In 2007 he was awarded the prize of Fine Art of the Culture Minister, and in 2015 he received the Arik Einstein prize of Fine Art of the Culture Minister for Life-Time Achievement.
