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

This book of essays, images, and shouts aims to bring new eyes and contexts to Jonathan Williams' influence and talent as poet and publisher, but also heighten appreciation for the other facets of his life and art. One might call his life a poetics of gathering, and this book a first harvest. Paperback, 469 pages. NEW.

Jargon 66. Poems, letters, essays and remembrances compiled by the Jargon Society to celebrate Basil Bunting's 75th birthday, with contributions from over 90 individuals who see themselves as peers or inheritors of his work. Each contribution is unique and warmly reverent. One of 1250 copies issued for private distribution. [122] pages, double foldout frontispiece, 1 color illustration foldout. Bound in semigloss pictorial wrappers with front cover drawing by Ron Kitaj and back cover photograph by Ray Williams. Fine, with tight binding.

Jargon 103. A collection of well wishes, anecdotes and musings assembled by Jonathan Williams to celebrate the 70th birthday of Donald B. Anderson, "the Polymathic, Panoramic Proteus of the Pecos Valley." Bound in glossy wrappers, with polaroids by Jonathan Williams on front and back covers. Design by Jonathan Greene. [64] pages. One of 700 copies. Spine faded from light, else fine.

Catalog for "An Exhibition and Celebration" of Jargon Society books at the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of SUNY Buffalo, October 18-19, 1991. Contains texts by Jonathan Williams and Robert J. Bertholf, and a Jargon Society checklist compiled by J. M. Edelstein (1979) with additions by Michael Basinski (1991). [36] pages, including 16 duochrome photographs. Stapled into plain cream paper wrappers. Staples are very slightly rusted from age; overall clean with minimal shelf wear.

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, Jace Clayton aka DJ/ rupture and art critic Ben Hall; and an interview with Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence conducted by Connie Bostic in 1999. 112 pages, with color reproductions throughout, featuring works by Jacob Lawrence, Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, Leo Amino, Jean Varda, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, Ray Johnson and many more students and faculty from the Summer Art Institute of 1946. Bound in pictorial wrappers. NEW.

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 at Black Mountain College. It features over 100 photographs by more than forty artists including Josef Albers, Hazel Larsen Archer, Harry Callahan, Robert Haas, Barbara Morgan, Beaumont Newhall, Nancy Newhall, Andy Oates, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy Twombly, Stan VanDerBeek, Susan Weil, and Jonathan Williams. Text by Julie J. Thomson, with an additional essay by Michael Beggs. Paperback, ix, 86 pages. NEW.