Weaving at Black Mountain College Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and their students
"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 fa...
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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 Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished material and archival photographs, Weaving at Black Mountain College rewrites history to show how weaving played a much larger role in the legendary art and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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Seite [216]: Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez and Their Students", September 29, 2023-January 6, 2024, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center ... Ashville, NC Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | 215 Seiten Illustrationen 27 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780300273564 978-0-300-27356-4 |