Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957

by Helen Molesworth and E.J. Koh

Book Overview

A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America

In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making artistic experience central to learning. Though it operated for only 24 years, this pioneering school played a significant role in fostering avant-garde art, music, dance, and poetry, and an astonishing number of important artists taught...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300211910
• ISBN13: 9780300211917
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 6.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.8" x 12.6"