Black cloth, gilt spine, dust jacket. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For John, with admiration, Martin. Oct. 9, 1972." Rare inscribed copy of this work on the experimental Black Mountain College. Black Mountain College was an experimental college founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others. Based in Black Mountain, North Carolina, the school was ideologically organized around John Dewey's principles of education, which emphasized holistic learning and the study of art as central to a liberal arts education. Many of the school's faculty and students were or would go on to become highly influential in the arts, including Josef and Anni Albers Charles Olson, Ruth Asawa Walter Gropius Ray Johnson Robert Motherwell Dorothea Rockburne Cy Twombly Robert Rauschenberg Susan Weil Merce Cunningham John Cage Buckminster Fuller, Franz Kline Aaron Siskind Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Mary Caroline Richards.
Black cloth, gilt spine, dust jacket. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For John, with admiration, Martin. Oct. 9, 1972." Rare inscribed copy of this work on the experimental Black Mountain College. Black Mountain College was an experimental college founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others. Based in Black Mountain, North Carolina, the school was ideologically organized around John Dewey's principles of education, which emphasized holistic learning and the study of art as central to a liberal arts education. Many of the school's faculty and students were or would go on to become highly influential in the arts, including Josef and Anni Albers Charles Olson, Ruth Asawa Walter Gropius Ray Johnson Robert Motherwell Dorothea Rockburne Cy Twombly Robert Rauschenberg Susan Weil Merce Cunningham John Cage Buckminster Fuller, Franz Kline Aaron Siskind Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Mary Caroline Richards.
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