Recent Arrivals from Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore
Recent Arrivals from Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore
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Jo Sandman / TRACES
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- 2022
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- Paperback
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- 9789781792391
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$15.00
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Asheville, NC: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2022. Catalogue for the exhibition held June 3, 2022 – September 3, 2022 at BMCM+AC. After a life-changing summer studying at Black Mountain College, Boston-based artist Jo Sandman decided to devote her life to art. At BMC during that pivotal summer of 1951, she studied painting with Robert Motherwell and Ben… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
The Ghost Lover
by Joel Oppenheimer
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- 1983
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$15.00
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Small stapled erotic poetry chapbook dedicated to Theresa Maier, Oppenheimer's wife. 20 pages, including covers. One in an edition of 500. Item Price
$15.00
Appalachian Journal Volume 44 No. 3-4, Volume 45 No. 1-2: Black Mountain College Special Edition
by Joseph Bathanti (guest editor)
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- First
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- 2018
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- Paperback
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$45.00
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Appalachian Journal, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly journal housed at Appalachian State University, announces its special edition on Black Mountain College coinciding with ASU's Black Mountain College Semester. With featured sections on Memoirs, Poetics and Practice, Writers and Poets, Art, Music, Democracy and Design, and Black Mountain College and Place, this special issue is the largest in the Journal's 45-year history,… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
Kenneth Noland: New Works—New Material
by Robert Godfrey
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- 1997
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- Paperback
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$2.00
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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. Item Price
$2.00
The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, Volume III: 1966-1978
by Larry Eigner
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- 2010
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- Hardcover with dust jacket
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- 9780804750905
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$35.00
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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. Item Price
$35.00
Ray Johnson: The Early Years
by William S. Wilson
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- 2007
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- Paperback
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$5.00
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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. Item Price
$5.00
Max Sees Red
by Martha King
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- New
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- 2019
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- Paperback
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- 9781949966060
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$18.00
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The first novel by Black Mountain College alumna Martha King. Paperback, 247 pages. NEW. "Always remember," Robby intoned solemnly, "everyone's scared of an artist. You might be a quack or you might not and not a single one of them really knows how to tell. It's all done with mirrors. That's why sometimes it pays to be crazy."
An American… Read more about this item Item Price
$18.00
Art for a House of Mathematics
by Anna Campbell Bliss
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- First
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- 2006
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- Paperback
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- 9780975491515
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$15.00
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Published by Bliss Studio Publications & distributed by the American Mathematical Society, 2006. 53-page square octavo with images and text describing the commission for the Cowles Mathematics Building Expansion at the University of Utah.
Anna Campbell Bliss's career has spanned decades, earning accolades and critical acclaim. Her work addresses both art and architecture, through an abstract tradition of painting and… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
Intersections: The Art of Anna Campbell Bliss
by Nelson, Katherine Metcalf
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- 2004
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- Paperback
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- 9780975491508
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$20.00
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Catalogue for an exhibition held May 23- August 3, 2004 at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Intersections shows the range and diversity of the art of Anna Campbell Bliss over 40 years from books and prints to paintings and site specific projects. Trained initially in art history and mathematics, later architecture and… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
[Prospectus]: Red/Gray
by Jonathan Williams
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- Used - Fine
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- 1952
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$200.00
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Prospectus for Red/Gray (Jargon 3) which was published in an edition of 150 copies. This prospectus lists individuals involved (verse: Jonathan Williams; drawings: Paul Ellsworth; printing: Joel Oppenheimer's The Sad Devil Press) and directs purchasers to place orders with Dan Rice at Black Mountain College. Fine condition, never mailed, perhaps because the cuts were off—part of the final "a" in… Read more about this item Item Price
$200.00
M.C. Richards, Centering: Life + Art—100 Years
by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
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- First
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- 2016
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- Paperback
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- 9781532309984
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$40.00
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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 Item Price
$40.00
Sappho's Raft
by Thomas Meyer
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- New
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- New
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- First
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- 1982
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- Hardcover
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- 9780912330518
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$30.00
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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]… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College
by Julie J. Thomson, Michael Beggs
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- First
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- NC
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- Paperback
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- 9781532325724
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$25.00
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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 Item Price
$25.00
Ray Johnson
by Brad Gooch
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- 2017
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- 9781944929114
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$50.00
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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 Item Price
$50.00
Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
by Laura Kuhn
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- First
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- 2019
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- Paperback
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- 9781942884385
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$24.95
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Cage's passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life together. Color photographs by Emily Martin. Foreword, commentary, and afterword by Laura Kuhn. Paperback with French flaps, 144 pages. NEW. Item Price
$24.95
Jonathan Williams: The Lord of Orchards
by Jeffrey Beam and Richard Owens, editors
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- First
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- 2017
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- Paperback
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- 9781632260871
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$30.00
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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. Item Price
$30.00
Centering
by M. C. (Mary Caroline) Richards
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- Second
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- 1989
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- Paperback
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- 9780819562005
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$21.95
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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 Item Price
$21.95
Toward Wholeness
by M. C. (Mary Caroline) Richards
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- 1980
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- Paperback
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- 9780819560629
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$24.95
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A fascinating study about a uniquely artistic individual, by 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. Paperback, 210 pages. NEW. Item Price
$24.95
The Crossing Point
by M. C. (Mary Caroline) Richards
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- 1973
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- Paperback
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- 9780819560292
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$21.95
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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,… Read more about this item Item Price
$21.95
Black Mountain College (Images of America Series)
by Heather South, Anne Chesky Smith
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- New
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- 2014
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- 9781467122351
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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$21.99
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The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. This edition, dedicated to Black Mountain College, explores what life was like at the college, the classroom, the work program, and the beautiful and… Read more about this item Item Price
$21.99