Weaving at Black Mountain College : Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and their students / Michael Beggs, Julie J. Thomson ; with additional texts by Brenda Danilowitz, Jennifer Nieling, Erica Warren

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-0-300-27356-4

ISBN : 0-300-27356-8

EAN : 9780300273564

Albers -- Anni -- 1899-1994

Guermonprez -- Trude -- 1910-1973

Classification Dewey : 677/.0282420975688

Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center (Asheville, Caroline du Nord) (Collectivité éditrice / Issuing body )

Résumé / Abstract : "In the mid-twentieth century, Black Mountain College attracted a remarkable roster of artists, architects, and musicians. Yet the weaving classes taught by Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and six other faculty members are rarely mentioned or are often treated as mere craft lessons. This was far from the case: the weaving program was the school's most sophisticated and successful design program. About ten percent of all Black Mountain College students took at least one class in weaving, including specialists like textile designers Lore Kadden Lindenfeld and Else Regensteiner, as well as students from other disciplines, like artists Ray Johnson and Robert Rauschenberg and architects Don Page and Claude Stoller. Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished material and archival photographs, Weaving at Black Mountain College rewrites history to show how weaving played a much larger role in the legendary art and design curriculum than previously assumed"--