Black Mountain Chamberlain: John Chamberlain’s Writings at Black Mountain College, 1955

Author:   John Chamberlain ,  Julie Sylvester
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
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9780691204482


Pages:   104
Publication Date:   28 April 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Black Mountain Chamberlain: John Chamberlain’s Writings at Black Mountain College, 1955


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"The first publication of the unknown poetry of a major twentieth-century sculptorIn 1955, long before he became famous for his abstract metal sculptures, John Chamberlain lived at Black Mountain College, writing poetry alongside Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson. By the time he moved to New York City in 1956 and began to develop his unique sculptural style, Chamberlain had completed a series of poems with marginal comments by Olson and himself, but the work remained unpublished and unknown-until now. In Black Mountain Chamberlain, Julie Sylvester presents a facsimile of this fascinating typescript along with an introduction based on interviews conducted with Chamberlain in the 1980s, conversations in which he described the strong connections between the poems and his later work.At first glance, Chamberlain's delicate and quiet poems appear to be the antithesis of his bold and brash sculpture. But in the introduction Chamberlain says that in fact the way he made poems at Black Mountain influenced the way he made sculptures throughout his career: ""It's actually doing things in the same way, with words or with metal. It's all in the fit.""Beautifully produced, Black Mountain Chamberlain reveals a remarkable and unexpected new side of an important twentieth-century artist.Distributed for Edition Julie Sylvester"

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Author:   John Chamberlain ,  Julie Sylvester
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
ISBN:  

9780691204482


ISBN 10:   0691204489
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   28 April 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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The main draw of [Black Mountain Chamberlain] is how it offers a new window into the sculptor's process, how [John Chamberlain] broke the world around him into words. * Hyperallergic *


"""The main draw of [Black Mountain Chamberlain] is how it offers a new window into the sculptor’s process, how [John Chamberlain] broke the world around him into words."" * Hyperallergic *"


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John Chamberlain (19272011) was an American sculptor whose works are featured in major museum collections around the world. Julie Sylvester is the author of John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonn of the Sculpture, 19541985, as well as books on Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, and Cy Twombly.

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