The Coats of James Castle: A Plane of Singularity (Primitive Books, 2026)

Each month we choose a book connected to an artist, a place, or the wider world of American art history. Some are biographies. Some are field guides. Some are the very books that sat on an artist’s own desk. All of them are worth your time, and all of them will send you deeper into the stories these extraordinary places have to tell.

This month we’re featuring The Coats of James Castle: A Plane of Singularity, an exploration of the self-taught artist’s extraordinary body of work centered on coats as objects, portraits, and artistic postulations.