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The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College
Eva Diaz
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Description for The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College
Hardcover. 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. This book reveals the influence of Black Mountain College. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 colour plates, 58 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 808.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
811g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226067988
SKU
V9780226067988
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About Eva Diaz
Eva Diaz is assistant professor of contemporary art at the Pratt Institute.
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