BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: EXPERIMENT IN ART, edited by Vincent Katz, with text by Martin Brody, Robert Creeley and Kevin Power

The MIT Press, 2002, First edition, 336 p., 9 1/4" X 1 1/2", Hardcover Fine but for bump to upper right corner, affecting boards and jacket but not text block - see photos) A milestone work, documenting the short but influential life of Black Mountain College. Although it lasted only twenty-three years (1933–1956) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College was one of the most fabled experimental institutions in art education and practice. Faculty members included Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, John Cage, Harry Callahan, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Clement Greenberg, Lou Harrison, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell, Roger Sessions, Ben Shahn, Aaron Siskind, Esteban Vicente, and Stefan Wolpe. Among their students were Ruth Asawa, John Chamberlain, Ray Johnson, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, Cy Twombly, and Susan Weil. Literature teachers included Robert Creeley, Robert Dunc