Weaving at Black Mountain College : Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and their students / Michael Beggs, Julie J. Thomson ; with additional texts by Brenda Danilowitz, Jennifer Nieling, Erica Warren.
Includes bibliographical references. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, held at the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, September 29, 2023-January 6, 2024.
Contents:
List of known exhibitions of Black Mountain College textiles. Art, craft design : Anni Albers's vision for the weaving program at Black Mountain College / Kay Sekimachi -- "Work with material," 1938 / Abbu Albers ; Making clothes at Black Mountain College / Michael Beggs ; "Handweaving today," 1941 / Anni Albers -- Specialization and generalization, 1940-1947. Specialization, production, and publication / Michael Beggs ; Weaving as art / Michael Beggs ; Following the thread : Black Mountain College and weaving education in the United States, 1934-1956 / Erica Warren ; "One aspect of art work," 1944 / Anni Albers ; Weaving literacy : weaving in the general education curriculum / Michael Beggs ; The Harriett Engelhardt Memorial collection of textiles / Julie J. Thomson -- Growth and change, 1947-1956. Trude Guermonprez : teaching and textile graphics / Julie J. Thomson ; "Design," 1952 / Trude Guermonprez ; Connecting the threads : weavers in exile - Anni Albers, Franziska Mayer, Trude Guermonprez, and Marli Ehrman at Black Mountain College / Brenda Danilowitz ; Departures, short stays, and closure / Julie J. Thomson -- Continuances, 1957-present. Weaving after Black Mountain College / Michael Beggs ; A Black Mountain legacy on Nantucket : Andy Oates and Nantucket Looms / Jennifer Nieling ; "Trude remembered," 1982 / Kay Sekimachi -- Contemporary connections. Jen Bervin ; Porfirio Gutiérrez ; Bana Haffar ; Susie Taylor -- List of students enrolled in weaving classes -- List of known exhibitions of Black Mountain College textiles.
Summary:
"In the mid-twentieth century, Black Mountain College attracted a remarkable roster of artists, architects, and musicians. Yet the weaving classes taught by Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and six other faculty members are rarely mentioned or are often treated as mere craft lessons. This was far from the case: the weaving program was the school's most sophisticated and successful design program. About ten percent of all Black Mountain College students took at least one class in weaving, including specialists like textile designers Lore Kadden Lindenfeld and Else Regensteiner, as well as students from other disciplines, like artists Ray Johnson and Robert Rauschenberg and architects Don Page and Claude Stoller. Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished material and archival photographs, Weaving at Black Mountain College rewrites history to show how weaving played a much larger role in the legendary art and design curriculum than previously assumed"-- Provided by publisher.
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