Title & Author:

Black Mountain : an interdisciplinary experiment, 1933-1957 / for the Nationalgalerie-Staatliche Museen zu Berlin edited by Eugen Blume, Matilda Felix, Gabriele Knapstein and Catherine Nichols.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Berlin : Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ; Leipzig : Spector Books, 2015.

Description:

463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the Marx Collection held at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof--Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, June 5-September 27, 2015.
English and German language editions published simultaeously.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Hortensia Völckers and Alexander Farenholtz -- Foreword / Udo Kittelmann -- Introduction / Eugen Blume and Gabriele Knapstein -- Performing the Black Mountain Archive / Arnold Dreyblatt -- 1933-1940. Archive 1: Foundation -- From Albers to Wolpe: unraveling the networks of émigré scholars and artists at Black Mountain College / Brenda Danilowitz -- Archive 2: Emigrés -- Pedagogical practices and models of creativity at Black Mountain College / Annette Jael Lehmann -- Processes instead of results: what was taught at the Bauhaus and at Black Mountain College / Fabienne Eggelhöfer -- Science and its double / Eugen Blume -- Archive 3: Art and learning -- Color photographs taken by Josef Albers at Black Mountain College, 1940-1948 -- 1940-1949. Constructing experience: architecture at Black Mountain College / Matilda Felix -- Archive 4: Architecture and work -- Photography at Black Mountain College / Alice Sebrell -- Archive 5: Photography, archaeology and guests -- Interdisciplinary and multimedia learning: artistic education at Black Mountain College / Gabriele Knapstein -- Still moving: performance and models of spatial arrangement at Black Mountain College / Gabriele Brandstetter -- Archive 6: Summer and experiment -- 1949-1957. Work with material: handwork at Black Mountain College / Mary Emma Harris -- "Great Books" in "Glyph-World": reading and writing at Black Mountain College / Catherine Nichols -- Archive 7: Literature, visual arts and crafts -- The ideal of an alternative school: Black Mountain College between educational reform and repression / Andi Schoon -- Alternative nation / Craig Schuftan -- Archive 8: Dispersal.
In English, some articles translated from the German.

ISBN:

9783959050258 (trade edition ; pbk.)
3959050259 (trade edition ; pbk.)
9783886097630 (museum edition)
3886097633 (museum edition)

Subject:

Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) Exhibitions.
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Arts in education North Carolina Black Mountain Exhibitions.
Education, Humanistic North Carolina Black Mountain Exhibitions.
Education Experimental methods Exhibitions.
Arts en éducation Caroline du Nord Black Mountain Expositions.
Éducation humaniste Caroline du Nord Black Mountain Expositions.
Enseignement Méthodes expérimentales Expositions.
Arts in education
Education Experimental methods
Education, Humanistic
North Carolina Black Mountain

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Blume, Eugen, editor.
Felix, Matilda, editor.
Knapstein, Gabriele, editor.
Nichols, Catherine, 1974- editor.
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart--Berlin, host institution.
Black Mountain : ein interdisziplinäres Experiment 1933 -1957.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291448
Call No.: BIB 235110
Status: Available