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Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay

Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival
by Christopher Benfey
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Mar. 2012. 288p. ISBN 9781594203268. $25.95. MEMOIR/ART
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Since his mother traces her lineage back to Colonial craftsmen and his father fled Nazi Europe with his uncle and aunt, Bauhaus artists Josef and Anni Albers (Josef eventually headed up Carolina's visionary Black Mountain College), Benfey really can look at his family to tell the larger story of American art. Exactly the sort of far-reaching memoir I like.
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Oct 15, 2011
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