Search Results: Authors starting with L from Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore

Catalogue for an exhibition held September 6, 2013 - January 4, 2014 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, exploring the role Black Mountain College played in shaping craft and design ideas and practices of our time, and linking it to the importance of craft on 20th century modernism as a whole. Essays by curator Katie Lee Koven. Acknowledgments by Alice Sebrell. 32 pages, with full color reproductions. Bound in pictorial wrappers. NEW.

Black Mountain College Dossiers #6: Michael Rumaker. Original publication of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, documenting the works of former students and faculty of the college. Text by Leverett T. Smith, Jr; design by Jon Jicha. 98 pages, with b/w photos. Light brown paper wrappers with French flaps. Stamped by hand with BMC logo on front cover. ISBN sticker on back cover.

Jargon 89. Sixty-nine full-page black-and-white photographs (nudes, landscapes, street photography) with some writing by Bongé, introduction by A. D. Coleman, and afterword by Jonathan Williams. NEW, in publisher's mylar."I can think of few photographers--of Bongé's own generation or of those before and since--who have managed to contain successfully and simultaneously such opposite, independent lines within a continuum of imagery. One of the distinctions of Bonge's work as a whole is that these disparate components coexist therein, each considered in depth and finely realized yet equally weighted in their importance with his total oeuvre. Because they are such extremely different kinds of pictures, requiring divergent photographic strategies." -A.D. Coleman

Jargon 77.
"Here is another book you can either attribute benignly to Black Mountain College or curse it for."
Starkly vivid and often grotesquely personal portraits taken by Lyle Bongé during visits to New Orleans for Mardi Gras throughout the early sixties. This stunning collection is prefaced by interview of Bonge conducted by fellow BMC alumnus, writer James Leo Herlihy. Preface by Jonathan Williams.
Landscape format quarto with full-page black-and-white photographs. 17 pages, [100] pages of illustrations. Paperback with the usual wear to the edges of cover and spine; price sticker on back cover and residue of an earlier sticker on the front cover.