
Between Form and Content
Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College
Independent Publisher
Published on 7. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-5323-7293-3 (ISBN)
Description
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. The catalog also includes artist statements by music animator/filmmaker Martha Coburn, curator/writer Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture), composer/ performer Tyondai Braxton and installation artist Grace Villamil.
Between Form and Content will be on display at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC from September 28, 2018 through January 12, 2019.
Contributors. Jeff Arnal, Tyondai Braxton, Julie Levin Caro, Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture), Martha Coburn, Ben Hall, Grace Villamil
Between Form and Content will be on display at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC from September 28, 2018 through January 12, 2019.
Contributors. Jeff Arnal, Tyondai Braxton, Julie Levin Caro, Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture), Martha Coburn, Ben Hall, Grace Villamil
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 269 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
516 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5323-7293-3 (9781532372933)
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Persons
Julie Levin Caro is an independent curator and Professor of Art History at Warren Wilson College near Asheville, NC.
Jeff Arnal is Executive Director of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
Jeff Arnal is Executive Director of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
Content
Foreword / Jeff Arnal x
Hammer-Camera-Scissors (The Workers of Jacob Lawrence) / Martha Colburn 2
Jacob Lawrence at Black Mountain College, Sumer 1946 / Julie Levin Caro 4
Search for Function / Tyondai Braxton and Grace Villamil 34
Excerpted Interview with Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence / Connie Bostic 36
The Jacob Lawrence of Jacob Lawrence / Jace Clayton 44
Excerpted Interview with Jace Clayton / Jeff Arnal 45
Jacob Lawrence: Between Form and Content / Julie Levin Caro 48
Face Changer / Ben Hall 84
Exhibition Checklist 93
Contributor Biographies 96
Acknowledgments 99
Hammer-Camera-Scissors (The Workers of Jacob Lawrence) / Martha Colburn 2
Jacob Lawrence at Black Mountain College, Sumer 1946 / Julie Levin Caro 4
Search for Function / Tyondai Braxton and Grace Villamil 34
Excerpted Interview with Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence / Connie Bostic 36
The Jacob Lawrence of Jacob Lawrence / Jace Clayton 44
Excerpted Interview with Jace Clayton / Jeff Arnal 45
Jacob Lawrence: Between Form and Content / Julie Levin Caro 48
Face Changer / Ben Hall 84
Exhibition Checklist 93
Contributor Biographies 96
Acknowledgments 99