Search Results: Titles starting with C from Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore

Catalogue for an exhibition held September 4 - December 31, 2015 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and February 4 - March 25, 2016 at Koehnline Museum of Art. An exploration of the dynamic exchange of people between the German Bauhaus, and its two major descendants in America; Black Mountain College via Josef Albers + The Institute of Design via László Moholy-Nagy. Essay by curator Michael Reid. Foreword by Alice Sebrell. Includes a "student crossover list" and list of faculty + lecturers at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and the New Bauhaus/Institute of Design. viii, 52 pages. Bound in pictorial wrappers. NEW.

Many were introduced to M.C. Richards through this insightful counterculture classic. The book is based on a series of her talks on the subject of "centering" which were published by Wesleyan Press in 1964. In it, M.C. shares her discovery of the process of centering clay on the potter's wheel as a living metaphor for becoming centered within oneself. Paperback, 159 pages. 25th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction and foreword by Matthew Fox.

Jargon 106. In this set of three poems Peyton Houston continues his exploration of the predicament of the human in a universe not too-well understood and of what can be done about it. Afternote by the author. Designed by William E. Loftin, with three drawings made expressly for the book by artist James McGarrell. One of 1000 copies bound in warm, light brown cloth with cream-colored dust jacket. 65 pages. Fine.

Catalogue for the exhibition Clay and Words 1952-1986: exhibited at the Crossing Point Gallery, Carmel, California. Oblong 8vo bound in white wraps. One of 500 copies numbered and signed by Julia Connor (curator of the exhibition, who also hand-set the type for the poems printed here) and Dennis Woodard (printer at Woodaen Angel Press).

VOLUME III ONLY, collecting poems from June 29, 1966 to July 28, 1978; pages 727-1347 of the full four-volume set. Note that this is the corrected version of Volume III, with the correct page 1074. An earlier printing inadvertently replaced page 1074 with a duplicate of page 1174. Hardcover with dust jacket, NEW in publisher's shrink wrap.

A stunning example of poetic questioning from M.C. Richards, the poet, potter, essayist, translator and painter, who taught at Black Mountain College in the late 1940s and thereafter became an impassioned advocate of community in both art and life.
"This book has the incomparable authority of a human life faced with open mind, eyes, and heart." - Library Journal. Paperback, 245 pages. NEW.