Sentences with phrase «garde black mountain»

He attended the Art Students League in New York, where he met Robert Rauschenberg in 1950; then he headed for the avant - garde Black Mountain College in North Carolina.

In the early 1950s, Karnes was a potter - in - residence at North Carolina's avant - garde Black Mountain College.

She has worked at some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation including North Carolina's avant - garde Black Mountain College and Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, NY in the 1950s.

North Carolina artists have founded a new school inspired by the legendary avant - garde Black Mountain College, Art in America's Erick Lyle reports.

He was demobilised in 1946, and after a couple of years at the short - lived but famous avant - garde Black Mountain college — with visits to the Phillips Collection in Washington to study the exquisite little watercolours of Paul Klee, another former Bauhaus teacher — Noland visited Paris under the GI bill of rights.

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Following the closure of the Bauhaus, when its remaining faculty members refused to re-open the school in compliance with the Third Reich, the couple emigrated to the United States in 1933, first settling in North Carolina, where they taught and helped to develop the design curriculum at Black Mountain College, at that time a noted site of avant - garde activity.

James Elkins, Irit Rogoff, Markus Miessen and many more — See the speakers» abstracts for our conference «Black Mountain — Educational Turn and the Avant - Garde» taking place on the 25-26/09 / 2015 at Hamburger Bahnhof — Museum für Gegenwart — Berlin.

But at Black Mountain, Rauschenberg found an alternative avant - garde in iconoclasts like John Cage and Merce Cunningham, who gave egolessness a good name, and with whom Rauschenberg forged lasting collaborative ties.

Although it lasted only twenty - four years (1933 - 1957) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College launched a remarkable number of the artists who spearheaded the avant - garde in America of the 1960s.

In 1933 he moved to the United States with his wife, the artist Anni Albers, where he was professor at the noted avant - garde institution Black Mountain College.

Born in Asheville, N.C., Noland served in World War II before enrolling at the Black Mountain College, the alternative school that proved a formative experience for many members of the American postwar avant - garde, including Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage.

The Black Mountain College has long been acknowledged as the birthplace of the true American avant - garde, and an intiative which accomplished to emancipate itself from its European counterpart within this faculty's halls.

The avant - garde composer and Black Mountain College teacher John Cage invented new performance methods and compositional processes.

He served in the army during the Korean War and, on returning to New York, met a small group of avant - garde artists involved with the famous Black Mountain College: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.

Not long after the Third Reich shut down the Bauhaus, the avant - garde art school where Josef and Anni had both studied and taught, Josef was fortuitously invited to lead the art department at the newly founded Black Mountain College, the North Carolina art school that would soon become a hotbed of modernist experimentation.

It will only be in the way» — in essence paraphrasing the aesthetic philosophy that came to define Black Mountain College as a progressive and avant - garde institution in those years.

School In mid-2012, Chelsea Ragan & Adam Void moved to Black Mountain, NC to pursue the visual arts in the birthplace of the American Avant Garde.

It seems as though half the midcentury American avant - garde came through Black Mountain in one capacity or the other.

Avant - garde institutions associated with Neo-Dada-type aesthetics include Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the New School for Social Research in New York, and the California Institute of the Arts.

One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, the German - born Albers came to the U.S. in 1933 to lead the noted avant - garde institution Black Mountain College after the Nazis closed his famed Bauhaus school.

In its two decades of existence, the list of staff and alumni at Black Mountain College would come to comprise an A to Z of the American avant - garde: artists Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and John Chamberlain, architect Buckminster Fuller, choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage.

Black Mountain College has long been considered by many to be the birthplace of the American avant - garde.

His interest piqued, Janssen began collecting books, journals, and other materials celebrating Black Mountain College's avant - garde writers and artists.

Although Black Mountain College, the legendary postwar incubator for the avant - garde, launched the careers of many twentieth - century luminaries who would eventually enjoy international renown, the sculptor Ruth Asawa (1926 - 2013) never quite became a household name — instead, her oeuvre has so habitually been relegated to the household.

An iconic figure in avant - garde art in America during the 1950s, the composer and artist John Cage is noted in particular for his controversial 1952 «musical composition» 4 minutes 33 seconds (4» 33»)(which contained not a single note of music), along with his teachings at Black Mountain College on a variety of artistic topics: these include Indian Sand Painting, forms of Performance art such as Happenings (eg.

Q. Black Mountain College was an avant - garde school.

After graduating from High School in 1942, he joined the Air Force for four years before returning to study at Black Mountain College (1946 - 1948), the famous centre of avant - garde art not far from his home.

Founded in North Carolina in 1933, Black Mountain College was a manifestation of the period's romanticization of the avant - garde; the school shut down in 1957 for want of bucks.

Later that year he enrolled at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, then the most potent avant - garde think tank in the world; he had read about the innovative, multidisciplinary college in Time magazine while in Paris.

With Rauschenberg he attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the legendary artists» seminary where figures such as John Cage, Robert Motherwell and the poet Charles Olson confronted the new American art of the 1940s and 1950s with the ideas of the European avant - garde, especially Duchamp.

Significantly less popular than one of its influential predecessors — the Bauhaus — Black Mountain College was radically collaborative in its practice of interdisciplinary work, in its educational system and its encouragement of creative production, fostering the emerging avant - garde from music, poetry, art, theatre, design, architecture, economics, psychology, math and physics.

At sixteen, he ended up at Black Mountain College, where he resided on and off, studying painting with Joseph Fiore and Esteban Vicente while learning poetry from avant - garde writers like Charles Olson and Robert Creeley.