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Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
Helen Molesworth
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Description for Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
Hardback. A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; ACXD; JNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 330 x 253 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2894.
A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America
In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making artistic experience central to learning. Though it operated for only 24 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, Buckminster Fuller, Karen Karnes, M. C. Richards, and Willem de Kooning, and students ... Read more
A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America
In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making artistic experience central to learning. Though it operated for only 24 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, Buckminster Fuller, Karen Karnes, M. C. Richards, and Willem de Kooning, and students ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300211917
SKU
V9780300211917
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Helen Molesworth
Helen Molesworth is chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Ruth Erickson is assistant curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Reviews for Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
"The richly illustrated catalog . . . offers a visual record of the early efforts of such eminences as choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer John Cage, and the painters Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenbeg."—Wall Street Journal, 2015 'Best Books for Art Lovers' Finalist for the 2015 George Wittenborn Book Award, given by the Art Libraries Society of North America Won ... Read more