| Description |
399 pages : illustrations (some color), music (some color), portraits (some color) ; 33 cm |
| Note |
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Leap before you look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957. Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Curator: Helen Molesworth with Ruth Erickson. Curatorial assistant: Bryan Barcena. The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, October 10, 2015 - January 24, 2016. Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, February 21 - May 14, 2016. Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, September 17, 2016 - January 1, 2017."--Colophon. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Director's foreword / Jill Medvedow -- Curator's acknowledgements / Helen Molesworth. |
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Imaginary landscape / Helen Molesworth -- A progressive education / Ruth Erickson -- Josef Albers. Photographs of matières / Michael Beggs -- Bauhaus in America / Jeffrey Saletnik -- Xanti Schawinsky / Spectodrama (Black Mountain Stage Studies) / Jeffrey Saletnik -- Marguerite Wildenhain. Large jar / Jenni Sorkin -- Arnold Schoenberg and musical interpretation at the Black Mountain College Summer Music Institute of 1944 / Jonathan Hiam -- Building autonomy. Creating community: The farm and work program at Black Mountain College / David Silver -- The Design-Build Program at Lake Eden / Lauren Bellard -- A. Lawrence Kocher. Stool and side table / Ruth Erickson -- Josef and Anni Albers: Mexico and modernity / Brenda Danilowitz -- Josef Albers. Graphic tectonic lithographs / Michael Beggs -- Weaving / Jenni Sorkin -- Anni Albers. Free-hanging room divider / Brenda Danilowitz -- Ray Johnson. Untitled / Ruth Erickson -- There is another way: Hazel Larsen Archer. Photographer, educator / Alice Sebrell -- Musical cosmopolitans at Black Mountain College: John Cage, Lou Harrison and Stefan Wolpe / Brigid Cohen -- Texture of the South: Roland Hayes and integration at Black Mountain College / Bryan Barcena -- Jacob Lawrence. Watchmaker / Bryan Barcena -- Leo Amino. Carnivorous Plant #22 / Bryan Barcena -- Summer Session 1948 / Eva Díaz -- R. U-- John Cage. "Defense of Satie" / Martin Brody -- Ceramics at Black Mountain College 1949-1956 / Cindi Strauss -- Shōji Hamada. Vase / Ruth Erickson -- Karen Karnes. Untitled (Candleholder) / Jenni Sorkin -- Peter Voulkos. Rocking Pot / Jenni Sorkin -- M.C. Richards / Jenni Sorkin -- The 1950s: Ways of life / Ruth Erickson -- Lou Harrison. Rapunzel / Martin Brody -- Theodoros Stamos. North Carolina Landscape / Harry Cooper -- Harry Callahan. Eleanor, Chicago / Ash Anderson -- Arthur Siegel. Untitled (Nude against Glass Block) / Ash Anderson -- Aaron SIskind. North Carolina 11 / Ash Anderson -- Chance encounters: Theater Piece No. 1 and its prehistory / Ruth Erickson -- Franz Kline. Painting / Jennifer Gross -- Robert Rauschenberg. Untitled (Night Blooming Series) / Helen Molesworth -- Robert Rauschenberg. Untitiled (a birthday picture for Hermine) / Jeffrey Saletnik -- Charles Olson / Steve Evans -- Charles Olson. Mayan Letters / Steve Evans -- Ben Shahn. Song / Ruth Erickson -- Between media: The Glyph Exchange / Ruth Erickson -- Cy Twombly. MIN-OE / Jennifer Gross -- Robert Duncan. The Song of the Borderguard / Steve Evans -- Black Mountain Review / Steve Evans -- Joseph Fiore. #7-54: The Gathering / Bryan Barcena -- The formation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company / Katherine Markoski -- Ruth Asawa. Dancers / Jennifer Gross -- Intentional communities / Gloria Sutton |
| Subject |
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) -- Exhibitions.
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Arts -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Black Mountain -- Exhibitions.
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Arts in education -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
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Art, American -- North Carolina -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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| Genre or Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Erickson, Ruth.
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Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.), organizer, host institution.
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Hammer Museum, host institution.
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Wexner Center for the Arts, host institution.
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Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.), host institution.
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New York Society Library. Book Committee.
2015.
ZNS
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| Added Title |
Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 |
| ISBN |
9780300211917 (hardcover) |
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0300211910 (hardcover) |
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