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Weaving at Black Mountain College - Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students
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Weaving at Black Mountain College - Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students
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A detailed study of the role and legacy of weaving at the legendary
Black Mountain College  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unpublished material and archival photographs, Weaving at Black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. Â The book illustrates dozens of objects
from private and public collections, many of which have never been
shown in this context. Essays explore connections and networks
fostered by Black Mountain weavers; the ways in which weaving at
the college was linked to larger discourses about weaving and
craft; and Bauhaus influences transmitted by way of Anni Albers.
The book also includes works by five contemporary artists that
connect and respond to the legacy of weaving at Black Mountain
College today. Â Distributed for the Black Mountain College
Museum + Arts Center  Exhibition Schedule  Black
Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC (September 29,
2023–January 6, 2024) Â
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