{"id":3416,"date":"2014-12-02T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2014-12-03T17:14:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T22:14:04","slug":"robert-seydels-pictures-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/robert-seydels-pictures-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Seydel’s Pictures & Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RS-The-Eye-in-Matter\"<\/p>\n

Siglio Press<\/a> continues to bridge literary and visual arts with the release of two new books by Robert Seydel:\u00a0A Picture Is Always A Book<\/em> and Further Writings From Book Of Ruth<\/em>, and a series of exhibitions of Seydel\u2019s collage work. \u201cSeydel often used various personas and fictional constructs in a vast and multi-layered body of work that incorporated collage, drawing, photography, narrative and lyric writing,\u201d writes Siglio. \u201cHis primary alter ego Ruth Greisman\u2014banker by day, artist by night, friend of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell\u2014lived in Queens, caring for her WWI shell-shocked brother while making hundreds of exquisite collages, a selection of which Seydel collected in the artist\u2019s book Book of Ruth<\/em> (Siglio, 2011). As Ruth, Seydel explored the boundaries between the the salvaged and the lost, the unknown and the unknowable, the art that is made and art that is found.\u201d A Picture Is Always a Book<\/em> accompanies the exhibition \u201cRobert Seydel: The Eye in Matter\u201d, that is at the Neilson Library at Smith College before travelling to the Queens Museum of Art in 2015 and the Book Arts Gallery Columbia College Chicago in 2016.<\/p>\n

This News and Notes item originally appeared in Issue Ten. To see other News and Notes from the world of collage,\u00a0SUBSCRIBE<\/a>\u00a0to Kolaj<\/em> or\u00a0PURCHASE ISSUE TEN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nby Robert Seydel
\nCourtesy of the Estate of Robert Seydel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Siglio Press continues to bridge literary and visual arts with the release of two new books by Robert Seydel:\u00a0A Picture Is Always A Book and Further Writings From Book Of Ruth, and a series of exhibitions of Seydel\u2019s collage work.…<\/p>\n

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