As both student and teacher, artist Joseph Fiore had one of the longest personal associations with Black Mountain College, where he experienced both the discipline and liberation of modern painting at the hands of regular professors such as Ilya Bolotowsky, Charles Olson, and Josef Albers, as well as significant visitors like Jacob Lawrence, John Cage, and Willem de Kooning.

Imagining the Landscape: Joseph Fiore's Structures of Rhythm and Sentiment: Black Mountain College Dossier n1 (Black Mountain College Dossiers)

Arts & Photography

Thompson, James

History & Criticism

Black Mountain College Museum & art

Part of the ongoing series focusing on former students and teachers of Black Mountain College, this one features fiber artist, Lore Lindenfeld. As a German migr student of former Bauhaus teachers Josef and Anni Albers, and Trude Guermonprez, she can be said to unite the progressive strains of two of the centuries most imaginative educational institutions. Her expansive exploration of fiber arts puts her in the vanguard of a vital direction in contemporary use of those materials.

Lore Lindenfeld: A Life in Textiles 1945-1997: Black Mountain College Dossier n3 (Black Mountain College Dossiers Number 3)

Weltge, Sigrid Wortmann

Individual Artists

This is a monograph focusing on former student Susan Weil of Black Mountain College, part of an ongoing series dedicated to the colleges legacy. When Susan Weil went to Black Mountain as a student in, she was followed by Robert Rauschenberg, her boyfriend from the Acadmie Julian in Paris. Her earlier decision to attend the school was one of several ways in which she crucially influenced his early artistic development.

Susan Weil: Full Circle: Black Mountain College Dossier n5 (Black Mountain College Dossiers)

Stein, Donna

Michael Rumaker was a writing student at Black Mountain College during the final traumatic years of the college. From a blue-collar background, his personal poverty paralleled that of the school. Teachers like Charles Olson and Robert Creeley helped him to a good start in gritty published stories and longer fiction, and he later produced important chronicles of the American gay experience.

Michael Rumaker: Eroticizing The Nation: Black Mountain College Dossier #6

Literature & Fiction

Smith, Jr., Leverett T.

Smith, Leverett T. Jr.

In Black Mountain Days, Michael Rumaker has written a touching, poetic memoir of Black Mountain College from 1952 to 1956. What were for the college its final four years were for Rumaker a sequence of journeys of creative and personal discovery that

Black Mountain Days

Biographies & Memoirs

Rumaker, Michael

Arts & Literature

Gregory Masurovsky attended Black Mountain College as an impressionable teenager. Thus began his lifelong commitment to progressive graphic art. He and his late wife, the abstract painter Shirley Goldfarb, decided on their first visit to Paris to remain permanently. They encountered intellectual and artistic luminaries like de Beauvoir, Giacometti, and Sartre, and rising art stars like David Hockney, who painted a significant double portrait of them. The closest of their artistic and intellectual associations was with Michel Butor, a legendary French critic and philosopher. This BMC monograph features a rare gathering of important new texts, reflecting the collaboration that has always characterized Butor's work with Masurovsky.

Gregory Masurovsky: A World in Black and White: Black Mountain College Dossier n8 (Black Mountain College Dossiers)

BUTOR, MICHEL

The book features photographer Hazel Larsen Archer (1921-2001). Archer arrived at Black Mountain College in 1944 as a student, and later was the photography teacher from 1949-53. Her photographs are stunning and are an intimate document to the history of Black Mountain College. Includes photographs of Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Ray Johnson and other students and teachers of this unique college. The photographs offer a unique and personal glimpse into life at Black Mountain College. Ninety-two breath-taking photographs which will enrich the viewer's understanding of Black Mountain College. Of all the photographers at Black Mountain College - Callahan, Siskind, Beaumont Newhall - Archer offers the most in-depth, intimate and revealing glimpse into the essence of the BMC experience. These photographs show the human side of icons who have now become legendary.

Hazel Larsen Archer: Black Mountain College Photographer

Vaughan, David

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