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Between form and content : perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College

Title
Between form and content : perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College / curated by Julie Levin Caro + Jeff Arnal.
Publication
  • Asheville, N.C. : Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, [2019]
  • [Durham, NC] : [Duke University Press]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Levin Caro, Julie
  • Arnal, Jeff
  • Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, host institution.
Description
x, 101 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
Summary
This catalog accompanies 'Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College', the first exhibition to focus on a watershed moment in the seminal career of Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), when he was invited by Josef Albers to teach a painting course at the Black Mountain College summer art institute of 1946. Lawrence's presence at Black Mountain College was part of its forward-thinking initiative to integrate the campus community beginning in the early 1940s. Curator Julie Levin Caro's introductory essay highlights the impact of Lawrence's exposure to Albers's Bauhaus-inspired theories and teaching methods and explores the ways Lawrence's pedagogy continuously fed his artistic explorations. In addition to Lawrence's paintings and prints, Caro writes about the artwork and recollections of a number of other artists at Black Mountain College during the summer of 1946, including Lawrence's wife Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence as well as Josef and Anni Albers, Leo Amino, Jean Varda, Ruth Asawa, Ray Johnson, and Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. Curator Jeff Arnal's essay introduces the work of the international artists commissioned to expand pathways into Lawrence's paintings through their contemporary, new media works.
Subject
  • Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000 > Exhibitions
  • Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
  • Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) > Exhibitions
  • Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
  • 1900-1999
  • Arts > Study and teaching (Higher) > North Carolina > Black Mountain
  • Arts in education > North Carolina > History > 20th century
  • African American art
  • Arts in education
  • Arts > Study and teaching (Higher)
  • North Carolina
  • North Carolina > Black Mountain
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • History.
Note
  • "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Between form and content : perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College, curated by Julie Levin Caro + Jeff Arnal, September 28, 2018-January 12, 2019." -- page vi.
Call Number
Sc F 20-37
ISBN
  • 9781532372933
  • 1532372930
OCLC
1037045021
Title
Between form and content : perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College / curated by Julie Levin Caro + Jeff Arnal.
Publisher
Asheville, N.C. : Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, [2019]
Distributor
[Durham, NC] : [Duke University Press]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Levin Caro, Julie, editor, curator.
Arnal, Jeff, editor, curator.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, host institution.
Research Call Number
Sc F 20-37
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