Record details

• ISBN: 9783959050258
• ISBN: 3959050259
• ISBN: 9783886097630
• ISBN: 3886097633
• Physical Description: 463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: Berlin : Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ; 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:

English and German language editions published simultaneously.

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.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

Language Note:

In English, some articles translated from the German.

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Subject:

Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) > Exhibitions.
Arts in education > North Carolina > Black Mountain > Exhibitions.
Education, Humanistic > North Carolina > Black Mountain > Exhibitions.
Education > Experimental methods > Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.