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JOE BRAINARD

"I Remember"

A peak into the


colorful
memoirs of the

vibrant Joe
brainard made
easy
The

&
ART

ISSUE
Labour

September
1
Brainard’s memories related to fashion
tend to describe women’s clothing,
especially dresses, such as, “I remember
when I went to a ‘come as your favorite
person’ party as Marilyn Monroe,” and “I
Introduction remember that for my fifth birthday all I
wanted was an off-one-shoulder black
For Artifact 1 our group compiled an satin evening gown. I got it. And I wore it to
index of the experimental memoir I my birthday party.” It's clear that fashion
Remember by Joe Brainard, which is played a significant role in both his growth
composed of a non-chronological list of as an artist and the expression of his
memories. By tracking the themes of art sexuality. Brainard’s attention to women’s
and labor in I Remember, we can begin fashion reminds us that clothing is always a
to see Brainard’s development both as a kind of aesthetic presentation of identity.
person and as a visual artist. The
His memory, “I remember my first sexual
process of indexing began with engaging
experience in a subway. Some guy (I was
in distant reading of the text to find any
afraid to look at him) got a hard-on and was
word that relates to art and work,
rubbing it back and forth against my arm. I
including references to colors, fashion,
got very excited and when my stop came I
jobs, or an aesthetic description of both
hurried out and home where I tried to do an
art and everyday things. The distant
oil painting using my dick as a brush,” gives
reading allowed us to recognize how
artistic Brainard’s mind really was.
strong representation of the most intriguing
category found in relation to art; “body”. This
Working together, we categorized the
gives a sense of how an influence of art
various forms of art that Brainard
affected so much of Brainard’s life.
mentions in his memoir. Though Brainard
Ultimately, the index reveals how visual he
is best known for his work as a visual
was and how often he takes the time to
artist, memories relating to fashion appear
elaborate on memories that have certain
the most, accounting for 25% of the total
artistic relation to him as a painter.
index. These memories making up a
quarter of the index is significant because
Brainard’s attention to fashion is both a
Group 4
record of his aesthetic tastes but also his
exploration of gender as a young gay
man.
The

& ART

ISSUE
Labour

sep 2021

By the hands of
Jerome Vincent, Christian Andrews, Tajanique,
Pablo Salaices, and Destiny Walker
2

INDEX
beautiful walk, 13

A beautiful, 15,19,23,33,51,58
belts, 11
bermuda shorts, 24
abstract, 25,96 big fat ties, 7
acting, 49 big lions, 6
admiration , 74 Bing Crosby, 56
ads, 93 black beauty, 12
Agnes Cooch, 76 black letters, 7
Alice Esty Concerts, 13 black night, 7,12
aluminum, 24 black rubber thing, 19
Amos and Andy, 52 black satin, 5
antique, 33(2) black snakes, 6
antique China, 19 black-face, 20
blond, 25
antique Junk Shop, 8
blonde furniture, 77
aquarium, 26
blood stained, 6
arithmetic, 101
blouses, 13, 81
art fair, 33
blue jeans, 9,11,25,68
art gallery, 75 blue suede shoes, 30
art Galleries, 8 body details, 25
art teacher, 19 bola ties, 4
artist, 12, 99 book, 51

JOE
artist smocks, 52 Life With Father,52
autumn, 30 I Like Ike,75
autumn leaves, 27, 81
award, 23

B
backdrop, 17
ballerina dancer, 20
ballet lessons, 5
ballet, 8
ballpoint pens, 7
barber, 65
bathing suit, 25
bathing suits, 21
"I Remember"
3
box suits, 7 baby Blue, 32
brick, 31(2) black, 21, 26, 33
bright green grass, 6 bright orange, 30, 36
bright-colored nylon seersucker shirts, 10 brown, 19 (2), 28, 31, 86
bright-colored, 26 brown-Green, 19
brown fur pieces, 15 dark green, 39
brush, 6,29 dark Red, 7

C
dark tan, 25
gold, 22
gray, 27
gray-silver, 36
cafeteria, 67
green, 6,19(2),26(2),86
camera, 18,19, 48
can-can Slips, 10
candles, 31
canoe, 86
cardigan sweaters, 10
carnation corsages, 16
carnegie Hall, 86
cartoon, 14
cartoons, 51 (2)
carvings, 31
casting couch, 77

E
Joe Brainard The Rose, 1992
cellophane glasses, 63
ceramic Castles, 79 pink, 21,78
ceramic Horses, 9 purple, 17
ceramic Monkeys, 9 red 5,17,21,27,29,30,33,34,
chambray, 31 h 98
chartreuse green field of grass, 11 royal blue, 39
cheese, 97,105 silver-gray, 37
chewing gum, 80 orange, 27
Christmas carols, 56 yellow, 5(2), 30
classroom, 81 white 24, 25(3),28,29,33
cleaning, 12 comic books, 47, 63
clear plastic high heels, 69 comics, 51
Coca Cola bottles, 71 contortions, 95
collars, 30(2) corsages, 78
color, 40 counting, 78
colors(2), 19(2), 24 cowboy hat, 18
colored, 31 crayola, 60, 97
colored ribbons, 81 creases, 25
coloring, 29 crepe paper roses, 14
"I Remember"
crocheted, 91,102 dye, 89
cross, 26 dyed, 26

D E
dance, 24
dancer, 18 Easter egg dye, 6
dances, 9 Easter egg grass, 26
dancing, 72,88,102 Easter suits, 13
dark green walls, 14 Esquire Magazine, 80
dark red fingernail polish, 21 evening gown, 5
dark, 26 evenings, 26
daydreams, 42(4), 68 expression, 83
Della Street, 25
dentist, 80
dentist's office, 35
department store, 13 F
"I remember seeing colors fabric, 25
and designs by closing my faded, 25
fancy costume, 72
eyes very tightly." fancy, 46
fantasies(5), 25
designs, 24, 89 fashion, 88
developed roll of film, 79 fashion design drawings, 76
diagramming, 101 fashion drawings, 13
dick, 6 felt, 30(2)
dime store, 72
figurines, 31,51
diner, 37
Fishnet, 31
doctor, 29
Fish-tail dress, 7
dragnet, 53
flannel pajamas, 73
draw, 93
drawing, 4,32,60,61 flesh(2), 25
drawings, 29 flexing, 83
dream, 25,105 float, 72
dreams, 24,26 floor, 42
dress Shirts, 4
dresser, 74

4
flower, 50
clover blossoms, 29
dandelions, 22
honeysuckle blossoms, 69
lavender, 26
light blue, 36
wild red poppies, 12
flower shop, 81
flute concert, 20
flute, 20(2)
forks, 87
frames, 99
Fredericks of Hollywood, 76
fur collars, 23

G
gestures, 83
glimpse, 27
globes, 80
God Is Love Is Art Is Life, 52
gold Chains, 10
"rebmemeR I"

gold Curtains, 10
green blackboards, 17

H
haircut, 65
Halloween, 84
ham, 97
haul, 73
heavy blue eye shadow, 10
hide-and-seek, 78
high school,99
hoop skirts, 19
horrible visions, 84
horses, 102
house shoes, 15

5 How Much Is That Doggie in the


Window?, 8
I
licorice, 86
Life with Father, 52

"I Remember"
I’m Dreaming of a White
light brown baby, 20
lightning bugs, 28
Christmas, 56 lights, 30
ice cream, 89 Linoleum Floors, 7
ink, 7,29 little pearl, 10
instrument, 35 little pillows, 84
instruments, 103 Loafers with pennies in
intricate, 39 them, 15
inventing, 99 Long Ugly Toenail, 9

J M
magazine, 63
Jantzen swimsuits, 64
making, 29,104
Jet Magazine, 76
Marilyn Monroe, 4,77
jeweled sweaters, 23
mask, 84
jeweled, 30(2)
men’s hat store, 65
jewelry box, 83
metal clamps, 84
jewels, 53
midnight, 26
job, 12,19,35
mistletoe, 30
Joe, 105
moccasins, 9
Julie London,75
Mondrian period paintings, 5
monkeys, 24

K Montgomery Clift, 24
moved in, 84
movie theater, 6
Katy Keene comics, 7 movie, 6,56
Katy, 86 Movie(s), 105
knee-length socks, 24 3-D Movie, 63
Kon Tiki, 75 art movies, 48
A Place in The Sun, 24

L Francis the Talking Mule, 52


The Misfits, 19
scary movies,77
lake, 24 sad movies,77
landscape paintings, 18 South Pacific, 4
laundromat, 27 The Thing, 8
Leda, 87 Elephant Walk,76
Liberace loafers, 10 Peyton Place,75
librarian, 37 muscles, 83 6
7
Museum of Art, 6 pastel, 85
Museum of Modern Art, 6 pastel-colored rocks, 20
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 8 peach-colored, 26
musical 34,35,87 pearlized plastic toilet seats, 20
My Wild Irish Rose, 51 pearlized, 100
mustard seed necklaces, 10 penny, 51
perform, 82

N performance, 87
Perry Como Shirts, 11
Perry Como Sweaters, 11
naked, 12(2),14,21,23,27,33,42,58,101
photo Machine, 72
Nehru Jackets, 67
photograph, 12,42,63
neon, 26
photographer, 63
novel, 74
photos, 93
novel(s), 51
piano, 72
Picasso, 53

O picture window, 19
picture(s), 32,40,51,63,99
pill Box Hats, 7
ocean, 31
pink Cloth, 78
Ohio Art Institute, 33
pink Lemonade, 21
oil painting, 6,11,20
pistachio nuts, 86
one color, 17
"I Remember"
optical illusions, 35
plaid flannel bathrobes, 15
plain camel hair coats, 66
orange powder, 5
plain loafers, 82
organ, 94
planting, 100
organ music, 17
plugs,89
ornaments, 56
poems, poet, 32,60
outdoors, 75
poetry, 43,86

P Polaroid, 80
portrait(s), 19,29
Posture pictures, 64
paint, 19 potatoes, 90
painted, 6,17(3),19,73 potted plants, 75
painter, 14 practicing, 83
painting(s), 6,7,8,14,23,24,75,99 President, 74
pale peach, 15 pretty, 27
pale, 25 print exhibition, 6
paper doll twins, 21 prizes, 24
paper poppy, 34 production, 34(2)
pastel colors, 16,81 prophylactic machines, 64
red nylon jacket, 22
red Rose Bush, 21
puffy pastel sweaters, 21 red shoes, 30
purple violin bottle, 17 red velvet, 38(2)
purses, 102 reflected, 30
renting, 99
rhinestones, 46,82

Q ribbon, 23(2),3697
ribbon bows, 58
rock and roll, 32
quicksand, 28
rock around the clock, 54

R
Rosemary Clooney

rainbow(s), 46,92
S
colored, 27 sack dresses, 7
pads,7 safety Guard, 14
raking,22 sandals, 48
read, 73 Satins, 74
record Covers, 75 The Saturday Evening Post,69
records, 93 scarf, 37
red brick, 17 scholarship, 33
red car coat, 9(2) school desk carvings, 66
red Ford convertible, 14
school play, 13
sculpture, 65
self- portrait, 33
selling, 99
sex scene, 75
Shakespeare, 54
shiny, 38
shirts, 4,10,11,31,66,79,91,94
shirt collars, 11
shoe store, 64
shoeshine man, 65
shop, 33(2)
short skirts, 48
short sleeve knitted shirts, 66
shoveling, 74
show, 22
silhouettes, 96
silver candlestick, 68
8

"I Remember"
singer, 18 tassels, 10
singing, 18,19, 72 tattoo, 6
sketching, 19 tattooed, 13
skimpy bathing suits, 80 taught, 84
skin, 95 taxi cabs, 64
skirt(s), 22, 30, 32 teachers, 71
skull ring, 63 Ted Berrigan, 88
slammed , 81 Television, 5,77
small diamond heart necklace, 76 As the World Turns, 17
snack bar, 13 The Arthur Murray Party,62
snow, 73 The Lone Ranger,65
snowflakes,44 Our Miss Brooks, 52
sock, 5 tents, 34
soft, 24 texture, 91
Song,68 The Little King (comic strip), 64
There’s No Business Like ' The Museum of Fine Arts in
Show Business,68 Boston, 8
I’m Dreaming of a White thin belts, 22
Christmas,56 three-dimensional, 96
See the U.S.A in Your toreador, 32
Own Chevrolet, 76 Tonto(3), 69
sound, 18 transparent, 22
sparkled, 27 traveled, 72
speech, 73 turtle necks, 67
squaw dresses, 7 tutu, 20
stars, 31 tuxedo, 21
store, 17 twinkling, 31

U
strapless net formals, 16
"rebmemeR I"
suede platform shoes, 23
Sunday morning comics, 16
swam, 73
ugly, 27
sweater, 32,81
underwear, 5
swim, 72
unique, 76
symbolism, 49

T V
taffetas, 74 Van Gogh, 17,18
tap dancer, 13 velvet linings, 83
tap dancing, 49 visions, 24, 25, 101
visualize, 36
9
10

W
wallpaper, 100
wallpaper(ed), 29
wash,22
Wax, 32
weaving, 57
weddings, 77
white gravy, 16
white lines, 17
white madonna, 19
white marble, 20
white pants, 6
white puffy floral design, 7
white rabbit coat, 20
white shirt, 9
white socks, 74
white spots, 10
white strap, 14
white tent, 13

JB
white wall, 7
willpower, 72
windows, 99
woods, 25,75
wore, 5(2)
work, 9,31
take care of, 5
worked, 5,8,13(3),17
world, 28(2)
wrinkles, 25(2)
write, 45

Y "I Remember"
yellow skies, 18

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