Leap before you look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 /

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Author / Creator:	Molesworth, Helen, 1966-
Imprint:	New Haven : London : Yale University Press, [2015] Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, [2015]
Description:	399 pages : 318 color illustrations, 170 black & white illustrations ; 33 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) -- Exhibitions. Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) Art, American -- North Carolina -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Art, American. Arts -- Experimental methods. Arts in education. Arts -- Study and teaching (Higher) North Carolina. North Carolina -- Black Mountain. Exhibition catalogs. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10370992

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Other authors / contributors:	Erickson, Ruth. contributor. Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.) Yale University Press. Hammer Museum. Wexner Center for the Arts. Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
ISBN:	9780300211917 0300211910
Notes:	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. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making the arts central to learning. Though it operated for only twenty-four years, this pioneering school played a significant role in fostering avant-garde art, music, dance, and poetry, and an astonishing number of important artists taught or studied there. Among the instructors were Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, R. Buckminster Fuller, Karen Karnes, Willem de Kooning, and M.C. Richards, and students included Ruth Asawa, John Chamberlain, Ray Johnson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly. Leap Before You Look is a singular exploration of this legendary school and the work of the artists who spent time there. Scholars from a variety of fields contribute original essays about diverse aspects of the college--spanning everything from the college's farm program to the influence of the Bauhaus--and about the people and ideas that gave it such a lasting impact. Catalogue entries highlight selected works, including writings, musical compositions, visual arts, pottery, and weaving. The book's fresh approach and rich illustrations convey the atmosphere of creativity and experimentation unique to Black Mountain College that served as an inspiration to so many. This timely volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in art, radical pedagogy, and the enduring legacy of the college. -- Front jacket flap.

Table of Contents:

Director's foreword / Jill Medvedow
Curator's acknowledgements / Helen Molesworth.
Imaginary landscape / Helen Molesworth
A progressive education / Ruth Erickson
Josef Albers. Photographs of Matieres / 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 Diaz
R. Buckminster Fuller. Great Circle Sphere Model / Bryan Barcena
Emerson Woelffer. Last Internment / Jennifer Gross
Stowaways / Eva Diaz
Elaine De Kooning. Untitled Drawing and Untitled #16 / Helen Molesworth
Willem De Kooning. Asheville / Harry Cooper
Cage, Tudor, and the visual language of indeterminacy / Nancy Perloff
John Cage. "Defense of Satie" / Martin Brody
Ceramics at Black Mountain College 1949-1956 / Cindi Strauss
Shoji 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. Paining / 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

Leap before you look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 /

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