Accident of Choice
JACK TWORKOV: ACCIDENT OF CHOICE
THE ARTIST AT BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 1952
Softcover: 216 pages
Compiled & Edited: Jason Andrew, Curator
Estate of Jack Tworkov, New York.
Language: English
ISBN: 0-9774138-4-5
Published on the occasion of the historic exhibition JACK TWORKOV: ACCIDENT OF CHOICE The Artist at Black Mountain College 1952 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, June 17-September 17, 2011, this fully illustrated catalogue features a survey of paintings and drawings by Abstract Expressionist Jack Tworkov ranging from 1945-1952 including the " House of the Sun" paintings, one of the artists most celebrated series. Compiled and edited by exhibition curator Jason Andrew, the catalogue also features an essay by the curator; two unpublished interviews with Tworkov and Irving Sandler; a reprint of the 1953 Art News article “Tworkov Paints a Picture” with essay by Fairfield Porter and photographs by Rudolph Burckhardt; historic photographs and unpublished contact sheets by Robert Rauschenberg of Tworkov at Black Mountain College 1952; as well as illustrated artist chronology.
