Ted Joans
Ted Joans at one of our impromptu parties.
"Sure really I is, aren't you?" by Ted Joans. Lent to the Centre Pompidou for its huge show on Surrealism.
"The surreality of the return in swarms" by Ted Joans. Berlin, Sept. 1983. Caldwell collection.
This is one of my favorite works by Ted because ...A masterpiece!
"Sexually crushed rhinoceros" "L'objet surrealiste" by Ted Joans. Apparently dated 1954 (but I suspect that it might be from 1964). Caldwell collection. Lent to the Centre Pompidou for its show on Surrealism.
Top left: "The tapir's cousins are the rhino and horse" by Ted Joans. Berlin, 1983. Caldwell collection.
Top right: "The Icelandic puffin birds as a pangolin scale" by Ted Joans, Berlin, 1983. Caldwell collection.
"Some serious sand raised up from Timbuctoo" Ted Joans, 1982, This memorializes one of Ted's trips to Timbuctoo with Alicia Fritchle, aka "Alicia Africanus". Caldwell collection.
Dedications
"Once or twice upon a time" with Sebastian ("Defense Absolue").
By Ted Joans, May 1995. Caldwell collection.
"CIA, You 'C' (See), You 'I' (Eye), You A ..." Ted Joans. Oct 1964. Caldwell. collection.
This is my other favorite pieces by Ted for many reasons.
Nkisi nkondi
Lumumba
Dr. Rotapep's Teducation in life, poetry, and totem animals: A show of previously un-exhibited Ted Joans collages and ephemera, curated by Duncan Caldwell. August 4, 2016.
Copyright Duncan Caldwell on all imagery & texts.
"Unloved letter with no news" by Ted Joans. New York City, June 1977. Caldwell collection.
I love the fact that Ted replaced his head with Africa in this marvelous self-portrait and "outagraph."
"The black positive power of Jazz"
by Ted Joans. Berlin, 1983. Caldwell collection.
"You never knew why Timbuktu, did you?" by Ted Joans. Caldwell collection.
This haunting work speaks to us on many levels.
The Hipsters
Original of a collage in The Hipsters, which was published in 1961. Ted Joans, Dated 1951. Caldwell collection.
And the collage that Ted added to our copy of The Hipsters.
"Un-DOMESTICATED BLACK U.S. MALE" modified U.S. Mail bag by Ted Joans with a cross on the reverse formed by Ted's name mirrored on either side of a vertical formed by the word Timbuctu surmounted by the Taureg southern cross.
"Coups de foudre" rhinos. By Ted Joans, 11 June 1992. Caldwell collection.
"Ted States of Me" "For Sebastian and Garrett A. Morgan who did in 1923 invent the ultimate public safety device, The traffic light" by Ted Joans, 4 Jan. 1993. Caldwell collection.
Ted Joans in one of his succession of "Nests". I took these photos while I was preparing to paint and sculpt a panoramic view of the nest with Ted posing in several places.
Dedications
Ted Joans between Nancy and Duncan Caldwell.