tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87934516082465308882024-02-18T18:39:26.715-08:00from Bauhaus | to Black Mountain : Book ProjectEternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-60500733092549679502019-04-30T22:18:00.000-07:002019-04-30T22:29:20.303-07:00Barry Bergdoll asks What Was the Bauhaus?<br />
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Today in an editorial at The New York Times (NYT) the
former chief curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, Barry
Bergdoll, talks about some of the complexity and mystery that continues to
shroud the Bauhaus – the earliest and most notable modern art school, which
operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933.
Bergdoll is a professor of art history at Columbia University, and was
10 years ago was one of the key people who supported my campaign to preserve
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The Atlanta-Fulton Central Public Library is of historic importance
for numerous reasons, including that it was the last building designed by
Marcel Breuer, who was early in his life a student at the Bauhaus, thereafter
becoming an instructor, and thereafter a Harvard professor and one of the most
renowned architects of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2009, <a href="https://www.metropolismag.com/uncategorized/overdue/">Berdoll and I were
interviewed by Metropolis Magazine,</a> which also included interviews with
Isabelle Hyman, and John Szabo, who was then director of Atlanta’s public
library system, and is now director of Los Angeles’ public library system.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/opinion/what-was-the-bauhaus.html">In
his article NYT piece, Bergdoll makes some good points</a> about that are
frequently misunderstood, pointing out that the misunderstanding comes from the
school’s rapid evolution and remaking over a short period of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some respects he’s preaching to the
choir, which historians are often guilty of, myself included.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Curiously, also today <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ruth-asawa-google-doodle-1530886">Google
celebrates the life of Ruth Asawa with a Google Doodle</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Asawa was not a part of the Bauhaus, but she
was the favorite student of Josef Albers, who taught at the Bauhaus, and later
moved to the US where he taught for many years at Black Mountain College before
teaching at Yale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it was at Black Mountain College where he
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<br />Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-49412291488362461982019-02-11T10:57:00.000-08:002019-02-11T10:59:05.226-08:00The Bauhaus Influence in Chicago and Detroit<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, my latest article looks at the school's influence on architecture and urban planning in Chicago, and Detroit. The piece also examines some lesser known history about key players of the Bauhaus, including some perplexing aspects of the career trajectory of famed architect and furniture designer Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. See images and read <a href="https://maxeternity.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/the-bauhaus-influence-in-chicago/" target="_blank">more here</a>.Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-22895495498470116102018-11-26T18:22:00.002-08:002018-11-27T08:10:24.819-08:00The Legacy of Galka Scheyer: The "Maven of Modernism"In my research for my book, <i>From Bauhaus | To Black Mountain</i>, I'm gaining a more complete picture of the historical evolution of the modernist movement. There were many facets of modernism growing in tandem in Eastern and Western Europe, in the US, in parts of Africa, and in the Middle East.<br />
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So while the Bauhaus served as the educational center of the modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century, the Bauhaus certainly did not exist in a vacuum.<br />
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One of the people key to the exportation of Bauhaus ideas from Europe to the US, especially in California, was Galka Scheyer.<br />
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Last year the <a href="https://www.nortonsimon.org/exhibitions/2010-2019/maven-of-modernism-galka-scheyer-in-california/" target="_blank">Norton Simon Museum</a> created an exhibition and presentation on Scheyer, which included the following video:<br />
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<br />Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-425859687075106182018-10-03T13:09:00.003-07:002018-10-03T17:33:39.554-07:00From Bauhaus | To Black Mountain seeks "Berlin Prize" research awardIn addition to a "Summer Stipend" grant through the National Endowment for the Humanities, I'm also applying this year for a "Berlin Prize," which is administered by The American Academy in Berlin, Germany. This award would enhance my ability to perform additional research for <i>From Bauhaus | To Black Mountain</i>, and another parallel book I'm working on, <i>The Agency of Art: War, Pedagogy and Social Change in the Western World - 1915 to 1965</i>.<br />
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The narrative for my "Berlin Prize" project proposal totals 7 pages, and what follows are the first 2 pages:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">My proposed project is a request for support toward the greater research of 2 parallel book projects, whose titles are </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">From Bauhaus |To Black Mountain: A Transcontinental Renaissance in the Age of Global War</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">, and </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">The Agency of Art: War, Pedagogy and Social Change in the Western World – 1915 to 1965</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Both books deal with historic aspects of the Weimar Republic, and Staatliches Bauhaus (1919 – 1933), a school founded by Walter Gropius that begin in Weimar, moved to Dessau and closed in Berlin.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Both books also examine the impact of some Bauhaus alumnae who migrated to the United States (US) to continue their pioneering social and artistic lives at Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;">By investigating one of the most enduring spans of the 20th century—from 1919 to 1933 and directly thereafter 1933 to 1957—representing the respective years of operation for Staatliches Bauhaus (the Bauhaus) in Germany and Black Mountain College (BMC) in the United States—my proposed book project goes beyond existing tropes and conversations on the subject to provide a captivating narrative on the transatlantic art and education interactions at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College (BMC); two schools that ultimately produced many of the 20<sup>th</sup> century’s leading artists, architects, designers and bleeding-edge dramatists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;">What began at the Bauhaus—a small, radical, German art school which greatly transformed European thought on visual art and architecture, urban planning, interior aesthetics and design—continued across the Atlantic Ocean to inspire the foundational DNA for yet another small, radical school with a heavy focus on the arts, yet thousands of miles away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">From Bauhaus |To Black Mountain: A Transcontinental Renaissance in the Age of Global War,</i> there are 9 areas of study – asking and answering:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-82712523838566085882018-09-26T16:16:00.001-07:002018-10-01T17:50:26.258-07:00Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain CollegeThe relocation of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Centers ushers in a new season of fantastic showings, beginning with an exhibition featuring a large collection of widely-sourced works by Jacob Lawrence.<br />
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The show is entitled "Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College," and a new article by Alli Marshall offers a critique:<br />
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<i>When Jeff Arnal stepped into the role of executive director at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center just about two years ago, one of his first initiatives was to apply for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The subsequent $25,000 Art Works award from the NEA, along with $60,000 from the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, was earmarked for the curation of...<a href="https://mountainx.com/arts/bmcmac-opens-its-new-location-with-a-jacob-lawrence-exhibition/" target="_blank">read more</a>.</i></blockquote>
Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-63955610098852732212018-09-19T16:44:00.001-07:002019-01-15T23:48:40.823-08:002 Articles and an Exhibition Highlight the Women of Back Mountain College<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Anni Albers is perhaps the best known woman to have passed through Black Mountain College (BMC). She was one of the original "weavers" at the Bauhaus in Germany, where here husband, Josef Albers, also taught and practiced. And there are other notable women who graced the halls and grounds of BMC who have received a fair amount of recognition through the years, like photographer Hazel Larsen Archer, and one of my personal favorites, a painter and sculptor named Lorna Blaine Halper whose work was included in <a href="https://maxeternity.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/asheville-art-museum-exhibits-bmc-artwork-and-epic-installations/" target="_blank">a feature article I wrote in 2015 about the Asheville Art Museum</a>.<br />
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In recent years, BMC has garnered more attention in the press and the world of art history, in no small part due to the hefty book, <a href="http://bbmbp.blogspot.com/2016/12/conversations-ruth-erickson-curator-ica.html" target="_blank"><i>Leap Before You Look</i> by Helen Molesworth, and touring exhibition curated by Molesworth and Ruth Erickson</a>, as well as the many years of tireless work carried out at the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center.<br />
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And earlier this year, 2 new articles continue the trend of celebrating BMC, of which both highlight the contributions of women. Appearing this spring at Artsy.net was a piece entitled "<a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-pioneering-women-artists-black-mountain-college" target="_blank">8 Pioneering Women Artists of Black Mountain College</a>," and in July at Hyperallergic an article entitled "<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/450033/women-of-black-mountain-college-yvette-torres-fine-art-maine/" target="_blank">Revisiting the Legacy of Women at Black Mountain College"</a> speaks to an exhibition in Maine at the Yvette Torres Fine Art, entitled "Women of Black Mountain College: Nevertheless They Persisted."Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-44506364212858608792018-09-10T15:25:00.001-07:002018-09-10T15:25:57.754-07:00Shared History: Black Mountain College + Arts Museum Celebrates 25th Anniversary<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This summer in Asheville, North Carolina, The Black Mountain College +Arts Museum celebrated their 25th Anniversary with an exhibition entitled <i>Shared History</i>. Having gained funding for a new and larger location a few years ago, the Shared History exhibition will be the last at their present site.<br />
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Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-23233001807176778232018-03-10T13:40:00.000-08:002018-03-10T13:40:01.120-08:00Global tour of exhibitions celebrate the Bauhaus centenary A global exhibition has begun in recognition of the 100th anniversary of Germany's legendary art school, the Bauhaus. From Artnet.com, an article speaks to the touring collections that make up the "Bauhaus Imaginista" exhibitions:<br />
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A series of exhibitions will be staged at different art and design museums and institutions in Japan, China, Russia, and Brazil from March 2018, leading up to a landmark exhibition in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2019, the Bauhaus’s centenary year. <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/centenary-of-the-bauhaus-celebrated-with-global-exhibition-series-1148747" target="_blank">Read more</a>.</blockquote>
Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-4879658503624851532017-12-22T21:20:00.001-08:002017-12-22T21:21:38.842-08:00Mesoamerican Homage: Josef Albers at the Guggenheim<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-41956008617261882132017-12-03T10:33:00.001-08:002017-12-03T15:45:45.403-08:00Black Mountain College: A Thumbnail Sketch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
In 1989 independent filmmaker, Monty Diamond, made a documentary short on Black Mountain College, which contextualizes the emergence of the school within the global context of rapidly shifting political and educational trends in of the early 1930's.</div>
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<br />Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-9482240776350874322017-10-13T09:18:00.000-07:002017-10-13T09:18:16.861-07:00Harassment and Intimidation of BMC by Federal Government Revealed by Investigative ReportIn 2015, an investigative report by Carolina Public Access revealed that US Government perceived Black Mountain College (BMC) as an "internal threat." This led to a multi-year investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that found no wrong doing, but did create turmoil at the school.<br />
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In 2010, I interviewed Barry Bergdoll in relation to my work educating the public about Marcel Breuer, which had become a necessary aspect to the preservation effort to save Breuer's final building, The Atlanta-Fulton Central Public Library, from demolition. I had been leading that effort for a number of years, and along the way Bergdoll and many others signed the petition I drafted on behalf of the building and its terraced plaza and monumental sculpture by Richard Hunt, entitled The Wisdom Bridge. At the time, Bergdoll was (is) a professor at Columbia University, and he also held the title of Chief Curator of Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art. What follows below is a video from a lecture Bergdoll gave in 2015 at Harvard University, entitled "Learning from the Americas: Gropius and Breuer in the New World." For those who may be unaware, Walter Gropius was the founder of the Bauhaus, and Breuer was one of his star students, and subsequent partner on numerous collaborations in Europe and the United States. Also, they both taught at Harvard in the years after the closing of the Bauhaus - before, during and after the end of World War II.</div>
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By investigating one of the most enduring spans in the history of modern art—from 1919 to 1933 and directly thereafter 1933 to 1957—representing the respective years of operation for the Bauhaus school, which closed the same year that Black Mountain College opened—renowned artist, writer and historian, Max Eternity, goes beyond familiar tropes and conversations on the subject. Eternity illuminates a multitude of crucial transatlantic arts and humanities relationships in the Western world during those times, whereby sharpening and refining the historical lens.</div>
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Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-71784275508834227732017-03-25T15:19:00.002-07:002017-03-25T15:19:59.719-07:00Triadisches Ballett von Oskar Schlemmer - Bauhaus<div style="height: 0; padding-bottom: 75.0%; position: relative;">
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On a visit to Asheville, North Carolina, last year, I spent time at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. I interviewed Alice Sebrell while there, at which time the museum was exhibiting a show called Convergence | Divergence: Exploring Black Mountain College and Chicago’s New Bauhaus / Institute of Design.<br />
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Erickson, the conversation concludes with a discussion about Merce Cunningham. A link to <a href="http://bbmbp.blogspot.com/2016/03/conversations-ruth-ericson-curator-ica.html">Part One</a> is here, a link to <a href="http://bbmbp.blogspot.com/2016/05/conversations-ruth-erickson-curator-ica.html">PartTwo</a> is here, and a link to <a href="http://bbmbp.blogspot.com/2016/10/conversations-ruth-erickson-curator-ica.html">Part Three</a> is here. And below is a Youtube video from a 1966 performance:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cunningham was born in 1919: the same year that World War One ended and
the same year that the Bauhaus school was opened. Years later, in the summer of 1953 while
teaching at BMC, Cunningham would form the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merce_Cunningham#Merce_Cunningham_Dance_Company">Merce
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<i>MERCE CUNNINGHAM (1919-2009) was a leader of the American avant-garde
throughout his seventy year career and is considered one of the most important
choreographers of our time. Through much of his life, he was also one of the
greatest American dancers. With an artistic career distinguished by constant
innovation, Cunningham expanded the frontiers not only of dance, but also of
contemporary visual and performing arts. His collaborations with artistic
innovators from every creative discipline have yielded an unparalleled body of
American dance, music, and visual art.</i></div>
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What follows now is my discussion with Erickson, as we
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Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-61644578866805569042016-11-20T12:10:00.007-08:002016-11-24T03:01:28.797-08:00Convergence | Divergence | Emergence: A New Conversation on Bauhaus + BMC<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
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There are so many things to be
learned about Black Mountain College (BMC)—about how the school came into being
in 1933 and what went on for the 24 years of its existence, as well as studying
the institution’s unrivalled broad appeal to artists and intellectuals of that
era, within the Americas inclusive to African-Americans and ad other minorities, and all
the contributors of Europe.<o:p></o:p><br />
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(NOTE: After returning to California, I decided to redesign all of the websites within the Eternity Group, which is why this interview material is just being published a year later.)</div>
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The [original] Bauhaus of
Germany, Staatliches Bauhaus, and the
New Bauhaus of the United States, located in Chicago, Illinois, both had
impacts on BMC. It seems evident, as
well, that the Harlem Renaissance (school) and The New School, both in New York
City, helped to shape BMC.</div>
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I first began formal documentation and writing about the Bauhaus |
Black Mountain continuum in 2008, when
I led a campaign to preserve the <a href="file:///C:/Users/Eternity17/Desktop/My%20Documents/Eternity%20Group/Max%20Eternitiy%20(dot)%20com/Articles/Black%20Mountain%20College%20+%20Museum%20(Convergence%20-%20Divergence)/centralbranchlibrary.blogspot.com">Atlanta-Fulton Central Public Library </a>from
demolition. Before that time and since my work on the subject(s) has manifested n some form or
another, including channeling some of the creative ideas of that collective
movement into my own art and design. <span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">In addition to writing a new book, entitled </span><i style="text-align: justify;">From Bauhaus | To Black
Mountain</i><span style="text-align: justify;">, for which this blog is dedicated.
I am also exploring new research for a [proposed] PhD dissertation,
entitled </span><i style="text-align: justify;">The Agency of Art: War
Pedagogy and Social Change in the Western World - 1915 to 1965</i><span style="text-align: justify;">, whose
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<i>How did a transcontinental
intersection of Western artists, educators and moralists harness the global
upheaval of the Two World Wars toward achieving high-minded social change between
1915 and 1965, particularly as it relates to the Harlem Renaissance (School),
Staatliches Bauhaus and Black Mountain College?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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however, is the first podcast segment of an onsite interview I conducted with
Alice Sebrell about an exhibition, <a href="http://www.blackmountaincollege.org/convergence-divergence-exploring-black-mountain-college-chicagos-new-bauhaus-institute-design/">entitled
<i>Convergence | Divergence Exploring Black Mountain College and Chicago’s New
Bauhaus / Institute of Design</i></a>, while I was visiting the East Coast last
year. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">László Moholy-Nagy, Plexi-Chrome Sculpture, 1947, vintage gelatin silver print, 8.875 x 6.25 inches. Collection of Michael Reid.</td></tr>
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Sebrell is the
program director at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and in this multi-part interview our conversation starts off with Sebrell saying “we knew there were common faculty members and
students between Bauhaus, Black Mountain and Chicago, but the extent of those intersections and connections we didn’t really know.” The
curator of the show, Michael Reid, was the person, however, who “did tons of
research and made a lot of discoveries that hadn’t really been articulated and
pulled together,” says Sebrell. And she also talks
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Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-43346412503040994192016-10-11T22:05:00.000-07:002016-10-12T08:42:00.536-07:00Conversations: Ruth Erickson, Curator @ ICA Boston, Part Three<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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<i>Peter Voulkos, Rocking Pot, 1956, stoneware with colemanite wash, 13 5⁄8 x 21 x 17 1⁄2 inches. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of the James Renwick Alliance and various donors and museum purchase © Voulkos Family Trust</i></div>
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In Part One of my talk with Ruth Ericson, she explained
the layout of the Leap Before You Look exhibition while it was still on display
in Southern California. As that show was
in its final week, in Part Two of the conversation was published, in which
Ericson and I talked some about the architects involved with Black Mountain
College, most notably <a href="http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11585-lawrence-kocher-renaissance-man">Lawrence
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ruth Asawa, </span><u style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dancers</u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">, c. 1948, oil on blotting
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Moving on to Part Three of our conversation, Ericson and
I first talk about pottery at BMC. And
thereafter, Ericson shares details about Ruth Asawa’s prolific body of work
created while at BMC. I then mentioned
Jacob Lawrence, who taught at BMC and was one of the most renowned Black
artists of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, also inviting Ericson to talk about
some of the other] African-Americans involved with Black Mountain College(BMC),
where she replied in part that “Black Mountain made the decision after a heated
debate in 1944, which is a full 10 years before Brown vs Board…and it was an
African-American female singer who came, and her name was Alma Mae Stone
Williams.” <o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>Jacob Lawrence, Watchmaker, 1946, tempera and graphite on paper, 30 1⁄2 x 21 1⁄2 inches.</i></div>
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Ericson also talked about Roland Hayes, who taught at BMC in 1945, and who was—according to the Harris Arts Center and other arts institutions—considered “the first African-American classical singer to have an international career on the concert and operatic stage.”</div>
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<i>This fall, step into an immersive, sweeping exploration of one of America’s most important artistic legacies. Featuring 200 works by 90 artists, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 sheds light on an experimental school in North Carolina that has had an extraordinary impact on contemporary art. Its influence is still profoundly felt today…</i></blockquote>
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Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-89867889387117596462016-10-11T11:25:00.001-07:002016-10-11T11:25:08.613-07:00SYNOPSIS: From Bauhaus | To Black Mountain<div style="text-align: justify;">
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By investigating one of the most enduring spans in the history of modern art—from 1919 to 1933 and directly thereafter 1933 to 1957—representing the respective years of operation for the Bauhaus school, which closed the same year that Black Mountain College opened—renowned artist, writer and historian, Max Eternity, goes beyond familiar tropes and conversations on the subject. Eternity illuminates a multitude of crucial transatlantic arts and humanities relationships in the Western world during those times, whereby sharpening and refining the historical lens.</div>
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Observed in the study of Germany's Bauhaus and the United States’ Black Mountain College, and by playing close attention to the social impact of these educational (forums) institutions and their respective players, <i>From Bauhaus | To Black Mountain</i> presents an intriguing and voluminous, yet concise, historical record in a manner accessible to layperson, practitioner, and academic.</div>
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In the malleable present and within the great hallways of collective memory, <i>From Bauhaus | To Black Mountain</i> offers an intellectually exciting and richly detailed understanding of the roots, and other aspects, of early to mid-century modernism’s family tree.</div>
Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-58813100610016066682016-09-25T12:54:00.000-07:002016-09-25T12:56:37.105-07:00HIstory of Bauhaus (brief)<div style="text-align: center;">
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Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-53842376132938604612016-08-11T18:02:00.003-07:002016-08-12T11:58:38.582-07:00Asheville Art Museum: Eternity Interviews Pam Myers on BMC and Commissioned Works<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A popular resurgence of interest in Black Mountain College (BMC) continues to grow nationally. There are numerous exhibitions happening this year recalling the school’s rich historical past while holding high its living legacy, with a show entitled Geometric Vistas: Landscapes by Artists of Black Mountain College opening on August 6th at the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina. And for my latest feature article at MaxEternity.com, I spoke with the excutive director of the Asheville Art Museum, Pam Myers. <a href="http://maxeternity.com/2016/08/asheville-art-museum-exhibits-bmc-artwork-and-epic-installations/">Read more.</a></div>
Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-64460879061444361242016-06-15T12:31:00.000-07:002016-06-15T16:51:11.236-07:00Conversations: Lessons from the Weimar Republic with Eric Weitz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Germany’s Weimar Republic lasted only 14 years, yet produced immense creativity and intellectual achievement. And in my latest article, published at MaxEternity.com, I interviewed Eric Weitz, Dean of Humanities and Arts and Distinguished Professor of History at The City College of New York. Weitz is also the author of Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, and in our conversation we talked about global politics—how much of it mirrors Germany’s Weimar Republic, especially in the US—and we talked, as well, about how the Weimar Republic launched the [Bauhaus] birth of modernism. Describing what the Weimar Republic was like, Weitz says it’s an “interesting, strange juxtaposition of both crisis and artistic creativity, and I think they are related…the fragility of the economy and the political system inspired artists to innovate.” <a href="http://maxeternity.com/2016/06/salonfahig-trump-hate-and-extremism-as-the-new-global-norm/">Read more.</a></div>
Eternityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447882413930959778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793451608246530888.post-58304447802309154422016-06-07T21:38:00.002-07:002016-06-07T21:39:26.547-07:00Andrew Reach on From Bauhaus | To Black Mountain<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“I think you are writing a very important book on the subject of the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College—in a way not touched in academia, as far as I know—inclusive to the interconnections with the Jim Crow South, and shedding light on new territory about African American modernists. I think also your perspective is fresh, in comparison to the usual suspects in mainstream academia who have dominated the subject. On a side note, the cover art you created for this project is beautiful, and connects with the modernity of the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College.” <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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