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

Jargon 99. Thomas Meyer's third book of poetry for the Jargon Society. One of 1000 copies bound in plum-colored paper covers with cream wrappers. Frontispiece by David Hockney ("Tom listening to Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges"). Bright, clean text within, set in Garamond printed on Mohawk Superfine paper in black and purple ink. Five abstract illustrated pages. 105 + [3] pages. Minimal shelf wear to wrappers due to storage, but NEW, from publisher's stock."What I had in mind was Le Radeau de la Meduse ("The Raft of the Medusa") and what that painting by Gericault encodes for Art History--a passionate yet scientific obsession with the human body focused against pathetic, modern circumstances in total belief the heroic were still possible.
Sappho has always felt to me like such an upheaval, the ache of indifference, the ecstasy of embroilment. While she provides a raft upon these boiling waves her raft is but a rideau, a curtain, which when raised to the rafters lets in the vision of shipwreck,
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Jargon 99. Thomas Meyer's third book of poetry for the Jargon Society. One of 450 bound in cloth over board, issued without dust jacket. Frontispiece by David Hockney ("Tom listening to Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges"). Bright, clean text within, set in Garamond printed on Mohawk Superfine paper in black and purple ink. Five abstract illustrated pages. 105 + [3] pages. NEW in publisher's shrink wrap. "What I had in mind was Le Radeau de la Meduse ("The Raft of the Medusa") and what that painting by Gericault encodes for Art History--a passionate yet scientific obsession with the human body focused against pathetic, modern circumstances in total belief the heroic were still possible.
Sappho has always felt to me like such an upheaval, the ache of indifference, the ecstasy of embroilment. While she provides a raft upon these boiling waves her raft is but a rideau, a curtain, which when raised to the rafters lets in the vision of shipwreck,
And Mytilene, and island in a sea, home to all bright… Read More

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 distills the chance, process, physicality, reflection and recollection of her site visits to Detroit, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Rome, Paris, Naples, Rotterdam and New York between 2006 and 2016. Contributions by international scholars and curators offer an oblique angle not only into VanDerBeek's vital practice, but also the ways VanDerBeek is shaping current debates on the relationship between image and object within contemporary art. Features the essay "Sculpture, Photography, Surface" by Ina Blom, and an interview with Sara VanDerBeek and Roxana… Read More

Jargon 63. A compilation of poems by Simon Cutts, English poet and founder of Coracle Press and Gallery. Includes verse and words from various pamphlets and smaller volumes from 1981-1987, together with some earlier works, and several color illustrations also by Cutts. Bound in green cloth with photographic dust jacket. 128 pages. As new.

Collection of texts that previously appeared in altered form in HOT WHAT (Mole Press, 1975) and in the series of visual postcards issued privately by the Jargon Society. One of 500 unnumbered and unsigned copies. Designed by Artek/Tom Chipley. Cover photo of Allen Beresford by Jonathan Williams. Tall, narrow quarto bound with two staples slightly rusted with some discoloration to the pages in the center folds, else fine, with no wear to corners.

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.

Jargon 75. Scottish poet Thomas A. Clark's text experiments, placed with intentionality on the pages of this narrow 8vo. Printed in black and green. Stiff, glossy card covers featuring photography by Bart Parker. Designed by Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer. [68] pages. Minimal shelf wear, some discoloration to the white back cover, price sticker residue on front cover flap.

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!)

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.

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 features text by Bill Arning, Jane Farver, Mark Bartlett, Jacob Proctor, João Ribas, Gloria Sutton, and Michael Zyrd. Paperback with partial dust jacket (belly band), [216] pages, 370 illustrations (196 in color). NEW in publisher's shrink wrap.

Jargon 86. With Six Variations on a Chrysanthemum of William Morris, by printmaker Ian Gardner. Printed on lovely pale yellow Abbey Mill Pale Buff paper, with pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Front cover features illustration by Gardner; author photo on back cover by Paul Joyce. [72] pages. One of 950 copies bound in paper wrappers. Light foxing to covers and edges, and light rubbing to back cover, which has lifted some of the ink from the author photo.

Black Mountain College Dossiers #5: Susan Weil. Original publication of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, documenting the works of former students and faculty of the college. Text by Donna Stein; design by Jon Jicha. 35 pages, including color and b/w reproductions. Light brown paper wrappers with French flaps. Stamped by hand with BMC logo on front cover. ISBN sticker on back cover.