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Volume 4: John Cage
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4 Table of Contents Rand Brandes & John Cheek, Guest Editors Blake Hobby, Executive EditorBrian Butler, Associate Editor April 2013 Introduction by Rand Brandes & John Cheek Blue With China Ink—Homage to John...
Volume 10 Contributor Bios
Volume 10: Chance | Dance Jason Andrew is an independent scholar, curator, and producer. Specializing in the field of Post War American Art, Mr. Andrew is the Curator/Manager of the Estate of Abstract Expressionist Jack Tworkov. Since this appointment in 2002, he has...
What Days Are Like When There Are Only Nights
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Ben MillerPublished October 2020I employ varying approaches to developing texts, but one element unites each effort: the aim of offering a reader a transformational experience, just as each piece of writing makes me,...
Migration Patterns: Art, Nature, and the Long Roots of History
Migration Patterns – Art, Nature, and the Long Roots of History by Quỳnh Lâm | Volume 12 of The Journal of Black Mountain College Studies
Spitting Fire: Black Mountain and the Black Arts Movement in the Poetry of Jayne Cortez
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12Joseph PizzaPublished May 2021Connections between Black Mountain and the Black Arts Movement may, at first, appear surprising. Literary histories, after all, tend to mimic the groupings arranged by writers and editors...
Before Black Mountain
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12David Silver, University of San FranciscoPublished May 2021Without Nan Chapin, Black Mountain College never happens.[1] Born in 1913, Anne “Nan” Howard Chapin grew up in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, the youngest of...
The Centrality of Black Mountain Poetry
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11N. S. BoonePublished October 2020And also that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel....
“It’s Right the Way It Is”: Printing at Black Mountain College
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12Philip BlocklynPublished May 2021Limited means, which are voluntarily accepted, encourage a cheerful and imaginative resourcefulness. –M. C. Richards1936-1941 The form in which to enclose the freedom Josef Albers...
Blue Ridge Moon
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12Kylie BanyardPublished May 2021Kylie Banyard, Blue Ridge Moon, 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 152 x 137 cm. Courtesy the artist, Galerie pompom, Sydney, and Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne.Curator Helena...
Volume 3: BMC’s Modern Legacy
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 3 Table of Contents Daniel Kane & Paul Betts, Guest Editors Blake Hobby, Executive EditorBrian Butler, Associate Editor September 2012 “To Open Eyes”: Black Mountain College into the 21st Century by Daniel Kane...
“Creative Writing […] has a place in the curriculum”: Robert Wunsch at Black Mountain College, 1933-43
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 11Lucy BurnsPublished October 2020Accounts of the history of writing at Black Mountain College have focused primarily on the rectorship of Charles Olson and the writers associated with The Black Mountain Review...
“a limit of the world”: Violence and Silence in Cage and Wittgenstein
Dr. Oliver Perrott-Webb[1] “I dedicate this work to the U.S.A. that it may become just another part of the world, no more, no less.”[2]—John Cage, Preface to “Lecture on the Weather” Along with Black Mountain College contemporaries such as Robert Rauschenberg, Charles...
viewing josef albers’ formulation: articulation, folio 1 / folder 14
Gideon Youngshapes on the wall, i see a sea serpent,head reared above rectangular waves,canvas reds, grays on blacks and whites. shape of the serpent, i remember an old game,dark teal puzzle of five 3D blocks. each blocka different shape: one is , another is ,one like...
What Constitutes Silence?
Blanca BercialI came to San Francisco in 2018. The first sound that got my attention were the sirens, a constant reminder of alarm. The second, was the desire for silence; a myriad of headphones covering people’s heads. Using audio technologies, we can advocate for...
I don’t know
Tom Murphy (performed by Tom Murphy and Ted Pope)I don’t knowhow far outis out theredon’t know+++don’t know++++++tongue and groovetool and dieJohn and Merce++++++far outnot out therelooking leapt++++++they’re out,far out,past the Be-In++++++leapt in the 40s dropped in...
A Quaker History of Black Mountain College
Alex AtesQuiet House (interior). The pews were carved by Quaker Black Mountaineer Molly Gregory. Accessed and reproduced with permission of the Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina.Introduction: Reconsidering the Quakers From creation to...
Kirill Chenkin: The BMC French Instructor Was a Soviet Operative
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12Isabella Ginor and Gideon RemezTruman Institute, Hebrew University of JerusalemPublished May 2021Chenkin’s sudden appearance and abrupt departure in 1940 framed a mysterious interlude in a career that ended as a...
Black Mountain Poet Robert Creeley and Bobbie Louise Hawkins in Guatemala: 1959-61
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 12Alvis DunnUniversity of North Carolina AshevillePublished May 2021Guatemala When I heard the story in the company— of the priest strung up by his thumbs while his humble young woman servant was raped and his moneys...
And No Birds Sang: the life of choreographer and dancer Katherine Litz
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 10Jason Andrew and Julia K. GleichPublished February 2020Katherine Litz, an important figure in mid-century American Modern Dance, was most known for her humorous and sometimes ironic solos. Like so many artists who...
Beta Tests + Practice by chance, with Merce
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 10Justin Tornow and Sean Thegen (Ultrabillions)Published February 2020Justin Tornow (dance) and Sean Thegen (Ultrabillions) create projects based on chance procedures and indeterminacy. To us, what is interesting about...