Book Description
A veritable archive of material on the visual, performing, and literary artists who made Black Mountain College the most successful experiment in the history of American art education.
Author : Vincent Katz
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0262112795
A veritable archive of material on the visual, performing, and literary artists who made Black Mountain College the most successful experiment in the history of American art education.
Author : Mary Emma Harris
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262582120
Back in print with a new foreword!
Author : Anne Chesky Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 1439647828
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 : Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 1940*
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Martin Brody
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262518451
Unavailable for several years, a generously illustrated book that documents the most successful experiment in the history of American arts education.
Author : Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 1942*
Category : War and education
ISBN :
Author : Mervin Lane
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780870496639
Author : Mary Emma Harris
Publisher : Black Mountain Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
ISBN : 9780964902015
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.
Author : Helen Anne Molesworth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300211910
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 : Mary Emma Harris
Publisher : Arnolfini
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Alternative spaces (Arts facilities)
ISBN :
"Black Mountain College was the place where Buckminster Fuller demonstrated the geodesic dome and performed in Erik Satie's The Ruse of Medusa with Elaine de Kooning, Merce Cunningham, John Cage and the young Ray Johnson. It was where poet Charles Olson, painter Ben Shahn, composer Lou Harrison and dancer Katherine Litz explored the idea of the 'glyph', Cage created 'the first happening' with Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Cunningham Dance Company was formed. In its last years it was the home to the Black Mountain poets, Robert Creeley and Jonathan Williams among them." "Conceived as an experiment in interdisciplinary education by a misfit classical academic, who drew on the ideas of A. N. Whitehead and John Dewey of encouraging learning through experience, it attracted the most remarkable roll-call of teachers and students. The first of these, Josef and Anni Albers, who arrived in 1933, virtually as refugees from Nazi Germany, became magnets for Bauhaus colleagues and then for a string of distinguished and emerging artists, writers, thinkers and musicians as a distinctively American avant-garde emerged in the wake of the Second World War." "Here five authors explore the history, the ideas and the impact of one of the most unlikely yet remarkable episodes in the arts of the twentieth century."--