Leap Before You Look
Leap Before You Look A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury AmericaIn 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an…
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Leap Before You Look
A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury AmericaIn 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making artistic experience central to learning. Among the instructors were Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Karen Karnes, M. C. 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.
Scholars from a variety of fields contribute original essays about Richards, and Willem de Kooning, and students included Ruth Asawa, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly.Leap Before You Look is a singular exploration of this legendary school and of the work of the artists who spent time there.