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

Catalogue for an exhibition held January 22 - May 21, 2016 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and August 28 - December 23, 2016 at Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, curated by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Includes essays by Stebbins and Paul Spillenger, son of the artist. xiv, 58 pages, with full color reproductions. Bound in pictorial wrappers. New.
Ray Spillenger studied with Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers at Black Mountain College during the summer of 1948. This exhibition comprises two decades of his work from the BMC era to the late 1960s. Spillenger's paintings demonstrate a total commitment to abstraction and a passionate love of color. After leaving Black Mountain College, Spillenger moved to New York City, where he became a member of "the Club," Cedar Tavern regular, and friend to Abstract Expressionist luminaries including Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Philip Guston. Despite significant contributions to the formation of the New York School, Spillenger did not find… Read More

Black Mountain College Dossiers #1: Joseph Fiore. Original publication of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, documenting the works of former students and faculty of the college. Text by James Thompson; design by Jon Jicha. 59 pages, including 47 color reproductions. Light brown paper wrappers with French flaps. Stamped by hand with BMC logo on front cover. NEW, though exhibiting some minor shelf wear. ISBN sticker on back cover.

Black Mountain College Dossiers #2: Fannie Hillsmith. Original publication of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, documenting the works of former students and faculty of the college. Text by James Thompson; design by Jon Jicha. 83 pages, including 79 color reproductions. Light brown paper wrappers with French flaps. Stamped by hand with BMC logo on front cover. NEW with minor shelf wear; ISBN sticker on back cover.

Jargon 64. This book was published in 1987, one year after Eddie Owens Martin's suicide. A beautiful tribute, and collection of photos and essays about the world famous outsider artist, and captures the strangeness and depth of beauty of his massive lived creation. Color photographs by Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes. Foreword by John Russell. One of 4,000 copies bound in bright red cloth, with duo chrome photographic endpapers, and a glossy pictorial dust jacket. NEW in publisher's mylar.

Jargon 64, Patrons' Edition. Number 83 of 100 copies of the Patrons' Edition, bound in the same bright red cloth as the regular edition, but with a pictorial inset on the front cover; clear acetate wrap; bright red colored top edges; signed by Tom Patterson, Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes on colophon in colorful inks; and issued in a black cloth four-flap portfolio case with clasps and blind stamped lettering on upper cover. (Note that the colophon states that the Patrons' Edition was bound in full leather. This was not the case!)

Catalogue for an exhibition held September 7 - October 14, 2012 at Yvette Torres Fine Art and January 18 - June 1, 2013 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Includes poetry and color reproductions of artwork by John Urbain. Short essays by Yvette Torres, Catherine Urbain, and Jan Laurens Siesling. Acknowledgment by Alice Sebrell. 32 pages. Stapled in pictorial semigloss wrappers. Fine condition, but may have price sticker or sticker residue on front cover.