Black Mountain : An interdisciplinary experiment 1933-1957

From the publisher :

Book concept: Catherine Nichols and cyan

The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College (BMC), founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools in the first half of the twentieth century. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture, and music were all taught here on an equal footing, and teachers and students lived together in a democratically organized community. The first rector of the school was John Andrew Rice, and Josef Albers, John Cage, Walter Gropius, and Buckminster Fuller were among the many adepts to give courses here. In consequence, BMC witnessed the development of a range of avant-garde concepts. This richly illustrated book appears in conjunction with the Black Mountain exhibition. It is the first comprehensive publication on BMC in the German-speaking world and traces the key moments in the history of this legendary school.

Black Mountain, 5. Juni – 27. September 2015, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin

464 pp., 450 black-white images and 22 colour images, thread-sewn hardcover with dust jacket, English

24.0 x 18.5 cm
Design: cyan, Berlin (Daniela Haufe + Detlef Fiedler)
Editors: Eugen Blume, Matilda Felix, Gabriele Knapstein, Catherine Nichols
Spector Books, Leipzig 2015
ISBN: 978-3-95905-025-8

This book is made of 464 pages, it’s big, it can’t be sent in an envelope.