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

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

Chamberlain, John
Sylvester, Julie

Hardcover

American Art - GeneralGeneral PoetrySculpture & Installation

Publisher Price: $55.00

ISBN10: 0691204489
ISBN13: 9780691204482
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Apr 28 2020
Pages: 104
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 9.60 Depth: 10.60
Language: English

The first publication of the unknown poetry of a major twentieth-century sculptor

In 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style, Chamberlain had completed a series of poems with marginal comments by Olson and himself, but the work remained unpublished and unknown--until now.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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