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Author : Martin Brody,Robert Creeley
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262518457
Unavailable for several years, a generously illustrated book that documents the most successful experiment in the history of American arts education.
Author : Helen Anne Molesworth,Ruth Erickson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300211917
La exposición refleja la historia del Black Mountain College (BMC), fundado en 1933 en Carolina del Norte y concebido como universidad experimental que situaba al arte en el centro de una educación liberal que pretendía educar mejor a los ciudadanos para participar en la sociedad democrática. La educación era interdisciplinaria y concedía gran importancia al debate, la investigación y la experimentación, dedicando la misma atención a las artes visuales –pintura, escultura, dibujo- que a las llamadas artes aplicadas –tejidos, cerámica, orfebrería, así como a la arquitectura, la poesía, la música y la danza.
Author : Eva Díaz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226067988
Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time at Black Mountain College: Harry Callahan, Merce Cunningham, Walter Gropius, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy Twombly - the list goes on and on. Yet scholars have tended to view these artists' time at the college as little more than prologue, a step on their way to greatness. With The Experimenters, Eva Diaz reveals the influence of Black Mountain College - and especially of three key instructors, Josef Albers, John Cage, and R. Buckminster Fuller - to be much greater than that. Diaz's focus is on experimentation. Albers, Cage, and Fuller, she shows, taught new models of art making that favored testing procedures rather than personal expression. The resulting projects not only reconfigured the relationships among chance, order, and design - they helped redefine what artistic practice was, and could be, for future generations. Offering a bold, compelling new angle on some of the most widely studied creative minds of the twentieth century, The Experimenters does nothing less than rewrite the story of art in the mid-twentieth century.
Author : Mervin Lane
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : 0870496638
Author : Martin Duberman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780810125940
Established in 1933, Black Mountain College came to be regarded as one of the most important artistic and intellectual communities of 20th century America. In this history, the author documents the college's 23 year history, from its most brilliant moments of self-reinvention to its lowest moments of petty infighting.
Author : Mary Emma Harris
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262582124
It was at Black Mountain College that Merce Cunningham formed his dance company, John Cage staged his first "happening," and Buckminster Fuller built his first dome. Although it lasted only twenty-four years (1933-1957) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College launched a remarkable number of the artists who spearheaded the avant-garde in America of the 1960s. The faculty included such diverse talents as Anni and Josef Albers, Eric Bentley, Ilya Bolotowsky, Robert Creeley, Willem de Kooning, Robert Duncan, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Goodman, Walter Gropius, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Charles Olson. Among the students were Ruth Asawa, John Chamberlain, Francine du Plessix Gray, Kenneth Noland, Arthur Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Snelson, Cy Twombly, Stan Vanderbeek, and Jose Yglesias. In this definitive account of the arts at Black Mountain College, back in print after many years, Mary Emma Harris describes a unique educational experiment and the artists and writers who conducted it. She replaces the myth of the college as a haphazardly conceived venture with a portrait of a consciously directed liberal arts school that grew out of the progressive education movement. Proceeding chronologically through the four major periods of the college's history, Harris covers every aspect of its extraordinary curriculum in the visual, literary, and performing arts.
Author : Jonathan C. Creasy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811228985
An essential selection of one of the most important twentieth-century creative movements Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it’s hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimental. Founded with the mission of creating rounded, complete people by balancing the arts and manual labor within a democratic, nonhierarchical structure, Black Mountain was a crucible of revolutionary literature. Although this artistic haven only existed from 1933 to 1956, Black Mountain helped inspire some of the most radical and significant midcentury American poets. This anthology begins with the well-known Black Mountain Poets—Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov—but also includes the artist Josef Albers and the musician John Cage, as well as the often overlooked women associated with the college, M. C. Richards and Hilda Morley.
Author : Eugen Blume,Gabriele Knapstein,Matilda Felix,Brenda Danilowitz,Catherine Nichols,Arnold Dreyblatt,Annette Jael Lehmann
Publisher : Spector Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3959052685
From Josef Albers and John Cage to Charles Olson and Robert Rauschenberg, the teachers and students of Black Mountain shaped postwar culture Founded in North Carolina in 1933, Black Mountain College ranks alongside the Bauhaus as one of the most innovative schools of the 20th century. Inspired by the forward-thinking pedagogical ideas of philosopher John Dewey, the experimental, interdisciplinary college combined the ideas of radical European modernism with the philosophy of American pragmatism and teaching methods designed to encourage personal initiative as well as the social competence of the individual. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture and music were all taught on an equal footing, and teachers and students lived together in a democratically organized community. The second director of the school was Josef Albers, and John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Franz Kline and Charles Olson were among its teachers. As a result, the college played a foundational role in the development of a range of avant-garde practices, and exerted an enormous influence on the development of the arts in the second half of the 20th century. Briefly out of print and quickly becoming a sought-after book, this gloriously designed and illustrated volume was first published for the exhibition An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933-1957, held at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. It remains unrivaled for its sympathetic design and fulsome documentation. A profusion of archival materials--including photographs of classes in progress and college housing with its Albers-designed furniture, and page spreads from college bulletins and issues of Robert Creeley's Black Mountain Review--is presented alongside contemporary essays. Happily back in print, Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933-1957traces the key moments in the history of this legendary school.
Author : John Chamberlain
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691204482
A selection of poems written by future sculptor John Chamberlain while he was at Black Mountain College in 1955.
Author : Anne Chesky Smith and Heather South
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781467122351
Located in the mountains of North Carolina, Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and other former faculty members from Rollins College. Their mission was to provide a liberal arts education that developed the student as a whole. Students and faculty lived and worked together on campus. Grades were abolished, and the arts were central to education. The college rented space for their first campus at Blue Ridge Assembly. In 1941, the college moved to the Lake Eden property they had purchased across the valley, allowing the school to grow. Many refugee artists found a home there, which provided an open and safe environment to create. Among the famous faculty and students of the college were Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Buckminster Fuller. Funding for the college was always scarce, and in debt, the college was finally forced to close its doors in 1957. Black Mountain College operated for only 24 years but left a lasting impact on the arts and education on an international scale.
Author : Julie J. Thomson,Michael Beggs
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Photographers
ISBN : 153232572X
Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College is the first in-depth exhibition and catalogue devoted to photography taken at the college and features over 100 photographs by more than forty artists as well as essays, photographer biographies, and a chronology of photography at Black Mountain College.
Author : Fielding Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Artist colonies
ISBN : UCSC:32106015830117
Author : Christopher Benfey
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143122852
"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes) An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, this generational memoir of one incredible family reveals America’s unique craft tradition. In Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, renowned critic Christopher Benfey shares stories—of his mother’s upbringing in rural North Carolina among centuries-old folk potteries; of his father’s escape from Nazi Europe; of his great-aunt and -uncle Josef and Anni Albers, famed Bauhaus artists exiled at Black Mountain College—unearthing an ancestry, and an aesthetic, that is quintessentially American. With the grace of a novelist and the eye of a historian, Benfey threads these stories together into a radiant and mesmerizing harmony.
Author : Mary Emma Harris
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262582124
Back in print with a new foreword!
Author : Mary Emma Harris
Publisher : Black Mountain Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 096490201X
This book is a unique document of a Black Mountain College reunion held in 1995. All former students were invited to decorate a 18 X 24 panel with work that reflected themselves or their Black Mountain College experience. A hundred and ten responded, and the catalogue reproduces all their contributions. The variety, richness, humor, and profundity of their voices are amazing.