Visual Arts from Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore

Very slim stapled catalogue for an exhibition of Kenneth Noland's work at Zone One Contemporary Gallery, Asheville, NC, November 6 - December 24, 1997. Two-page essay by Robert Godfrey, and reproductions of 4 works. Paperback, 4 pages. NEW.

Catalogue for an exhibition held at Richard L. Feigen & Co. in 2007, organized by Frances F. L. Beatty, Ph.D. Slim volume containing color reproductions, an essay by William S. Wilson titled "Ray Johnson: Finite but Unbounded," and chronology. Paperback, 12 pages. NEW.

Originally published in conjunction with the centennial exhibition M.C. Richards, Centering: Life + Art — 100 Years at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (June 3 – August 20, 2016) curated by Alice Sebrell and Julia Connor. This fully illustrated publication includes ample selections of Richards' pottery, poetry, and painting as well as photographs and ephemera from her life,… Read more about this item

Catalogue for the exhibition held January 20-May 20, 2017 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. The first in-depth exhibition and catalog devoted to the examination of photography at Black Mountain College. Organized around the themes of Available Light, Bearing Witness, Performing for the Camera, Experimentation, and Place, this catalog includes essays, photographer biographies, and a chronology about photography… Read more about this item

This volume collects 42 collages made by Johnson between 1966 and 1994, most never exhibited or published before, with a new essay by writer Brad Gooch, who first came into contact with Johnson when he began receiving unsolicited mail art shortly before the artist's death. The collection of works in this volume shows the artist at his most expansive, combining… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

Catalogue for the exhibition held at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center from September 21, 2007 - January 19, 2008, curated by Bobby Gold. This was the first exhibition to focus solely on the potters associated with Black Mountain College and their contribution to the field of ceramics. Featuring work by David Weinrib, Karen Karnes, Shoji Hamada, Peter Voulkos,… Read more about this item

An argument that the collaborative multimedia projects produced by Stan VanDerBeek in the 1960s and 1970s anticipate contemporary new media and participatory art practices. Hardcover with dust jacket, 257 pages with b/w illustrations. NEW and SIGNED by the author, Gloria Sutton.

Catalogue for the first museum survey exhibition of artist and filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, VanDerBeek was one of the first to extend film projection into multimedia spectacle and to embrace video and computer technology: a supreme instance of what critic Gene Youngblood dubbed "Expanded Cinema." This publication… Read more about this item

Sara VanDerBeek's photographic and sculptural arrangements emulate a poet's economic use of structure, phrasing and rhythm to suspend images and multiple processes within a rigorously shaped framework. This first book-length study presents close readings of VanDerBeek's (b. 1976 in Baltimore) experimentation with photographic capture, printing, cast-concrete forms, and built environments that draw on diverse material cultures Ultimately, the book richly… Read more about this item

Catalogue for an exhibition held June 6, 2009-May 2, 2010 at Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. The yearlong exhibition combined work by the influential filmmaker and artist with work by his daughter Sara VanDerBeek (b. 1976) and son Johannes VanDerBeek (b. 1982). This publication features essays and interviews on Stan VanDerBeek… Read more about this item

Catalogue for an exhibition held September 20, 2018 - January 4, 2020, edited by co-curators Chelsea Spengemann and Sara VanDerBeek. Features full-color reproductions along with essays by Gloria Sutton, Adrianna Campbell-LaFleur, and Hyemin Kim. Includes insert with text of keynote address by Chelsea Spengemann and Sara VanDerBeek given at ReVIEWING Black Mountain College international conference, September 2019. Paperback, 125 pages.… Read more about this item

A generously illustrated overview of Albers's work, accompanying the first major exhibition on the artist in more than thirty years (Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany, June 16, 2018–October 7, 2018) featuring all aspects of his long, creative career. Beginning with Albers's time at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, the publication follows the artist to America and describes major themes of… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Catalogue for an exhibition held September 21 - December 30, 2017 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, featuring performances and installations by Martha McDonald drawing from the BMCM+AC Archives, Bauhaus theater, and experimental educational practices to present a new look at process and performance at Black Mountain College. Essays by Martha McDonald. Foreword by Jeff Arnal. Interview with… Read more about this item

Catalogue for an exhibition held September 28, 2018 - January 12, 2019. This was the first exhibition to focus on Jacob Lawrence's time at Black Mountain College, teaching painting at the Summer Art Institute of 1946. Includes essays by the curators, Julie Levin Caro and Jeff Arnal, as well as responses from contemporary artists Martha Colburn, Tyondai Braxton, Grace Villamil,… Read more about this item

Catalogue for an exhibition held September 5, 2014- January 10, 2015 at Black Mountain College, with essays by exhibition curator Brian E. Butler focusing on the painting of Dan Rice from the 1950s and 1960s, and on his associations and collaborations with the poets of that time. 68 pages with full color reproductions. Oblong format, bound in pictorial wrappers. New.… Read more about this item

Catalog for an exhibition held January 27 - May 26, 2012 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and January 26 - May 25, 2012 at the Fine Art Museum of Western Carolina University. Spans the 63 year career of Black Mountain College alumna and first-generation New York Abstract Expressionist Pat Passlof. Acknowledgments by Connie Bostic, Alice Sebrell, and… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item