Leap Before You Look – Black Mountain College, 1933 1957 by Molesworth, Helen - 2015

Yale University Press, 2015-10-13T00:00:01Z. hardcover. New. 201x156x24. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Boston / New Haven / London: Institute of Contemporary Art / In Association with Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover. VG (Light edgewear to DJ and textblock.). White and color-illustrated DJ with black and white lettering; white boards with black lettering; 399 pp.; richly illustrated. "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… Read More

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