The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College Bjarne Melgaard and a bibliography and checklist

and a bibliography and checklist that map patterns and relationships between radical thought and artistic practices – from the modernist avant-gardes to postmodernism

and queerness

melded with sexuality and period films

class and gender oppression

Adriana Lazarova

The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College Bjarne Melgaard and a bibliography and checklistUniversity of Chicago Press, 2014, Hardcover, 242 pages, 25 17 cm In the years immediately following World War II, Black Mountain College, an unaccredited school in rural Appalachia, became a vital hub of cultural innovation. Practically every major artistic figure of the mid twentieth century spent some time there: Merce Cunningham, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne,