Black Mountain School

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ch/bmc_web_page/bmc4.htm
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History

• Founded in 1933
• John A. Rice
• Combined liberal arts with fine arts
• Josef and Anni Albers
• Fled Nazi Germany after the closing of the
  Bauhaus
• Attracted students

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More History

• By the late forties
• Word started to spread though out the country of
  what was going on in Black Mountain
• BMC had a Board of Directors that included
  William Carlos Williams and Albert Einstein
• Had impressive photography and ceramics programs
• Black Mountain had become the ideal of American
  experimental education. Its concentration of
  cross-genre arts education would influence the
  programs of many major American institutions.
  PBS
• http//www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/b
  lack_mountain_college.html

By the forties The faculty had many of the
greatest artists and thinkers of that time
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Academic Classes at Black Mountain College
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ch/bmc_web_page/bmc4.htm
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Art Classes at Black Mountain College
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ch/bmc_web_page/bmc4.htm
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Studying at Black Mountain College
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ch/bmc_web_page/bmc4.htm
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Things to do at Black Mountain College
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ch/bmc_web_page/bmc4.htm
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Josef and Anni Albers
Anni Albers, Under Way, 1963Cotton, linen, and
wool. 74 x 61.2 cm (29-1/8 x 24-1/8 inches)
Josef Albers, Park, ca. 1924glass wire, metal,
paint, wood. JAF GL-28.49.5 x 38 cm (19-1/2 x
15 inches)
http//www.albersfoundation.org/Albers.php?incPho
toAlbumimgp180
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Robert Motherwell
www.panix.com/blackwoo/ artm_motherwell.html
Catalonia, 1951 o/c 121.9 x 152.4 cm
www.legacy-project.org/arts/ display.html?ID968
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ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
nmaa-ryder.si.edu/.../ 16arauchenbergbio.html
www.massurrealism.com/ example/rob.htm