Black Mountain College Studies

Eric Satie’s Ruse of Medusa. (La piége de Mĕduse). Buckminster Fuller as Baron Medusa, William Schrauger as Astolfo, Elaine de Kooning as Frisette, and Merce Cunningham as Jonas, “a costly mechanical monkey.” Clemens Kalischer, photographer. Courtesy, Kalischer.

Introduction Rand Brandes + John Cheek

4.1 Robert Motherwell
Blue with China Ink—Homage to John Cage

4.2 Holly Martin
The Asian Factor in John Cage’s Aesthetics:  An Introduction with a Previously Unpublished Interview with Cage from 1976

4.3 Joseph Bathanti
Cage Asleep; Sonnet Cage; Irwin Kremen Mesostic: A Chance Remark by John Cage; Grabowski: Cage and Cunningham at Duke; Cage in John and Yoko’s Kitchen; Elegy Cage: Driving to Ma Peak’s for a Beer

4.4 Ashley Paul
Leave Mine, with Introduction

4.5 Dean Wilcox
Determining Indeterminacy: The Legacy of John Cage

4.6 Úna Monaghan and Martin Dowling
Owenvarragh: A Belfast Circus on The Star Factory

4.7 Daniel Haxall
Blue with China Ink: Robert Motherwell’s Unlikely Homage to John Cage

4.8 Daniel Scandurra
Mesosticage

John Cage playing for the Satie festival. Clemens Kalischer, photographer. Courtesy Kalischer.

4.9 David Patterson
Two Cages, One College: Cage at Black Mountain College, 1948 and 1952

4.10 Steve Lansford
4.10.1—Making a Difference: Ramifications of Unity and Diversity, Repetition and Variation, in the Works of John Cage
4.10.2—Imaginal Landscape

4.11 Jerzy Luty
Anarchism—Buddhism—Contingency. Empty Words and (a)political art of John Cage

4.12 Damian Catera
Multimedia Performance for BMC International Conference 2011

4.13 Edward Crooks
Perilous Nights and Shaggy Nags: The Influence of Joseph Campbell on John Cage

4.14 Lili Corbus
Remembrance of Interviews Past: Cage (and Me)

4.15 Mary Emma Harris
John Cage at Black Mountain: A Preliminary Thinking

Introduction Daniel Kane + Paul Betts
“To Open Eyes”: Black Mountain College into the 21st Century

3.1
Interview with Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence

3.2 Arabella Stanger
Merce Cunningham’s Ensemble Space and the Black Mountain Principle of Community

3.3 Emile Bojesen
For Democracy: Lesson from Black Mountain College

3.4 Juha Virtanen
NO ONE REMAINS, NOR IS, ONE

3.5 Ross Hair
“Hemi-demi-semi barbaric yawps”: Jonathan Williams and Black Mountain

Courtesy of the Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer

Introduction

2.1 Kenneth Snelson

Interviewed by Connie Bostic, transcribed by Jolene Mechanic

2.2 Michael von Uchtrup: Ray Johnson Biography

2.3 Johanna Gosse
From Art to Experience: The Porous Philosophy of Ray Johnson

2.4 Julie J. Thomson
To Ray J, George Brecht Knows, George Brecht’s Nose: The Development of Ray Johnson’s and George Brecht’s Participatory and Dialogic Practices

2.5 Kate Erin Dempsey
Weaving Correspondence: Anni Albers and Ray Johnson

2.6 VanDerBeek Collage
Reading Ray: VanDerBeek Deep

2.7 Reading Ray 1 (Johanna Gosse)

2.8 Reading Ray 2 (Julie J. Thomson)

2.9 Reading Ray 3 (Kate Erin Dempsey)

2.10 Reading Ray 4 (Sebastian Matthews)

1.1 Dorothea Rockburne
Interview with Connie Bostic, transcribed by Jolene Mechanic

1.2 Shane Ralston
The Prospect of an Ideal Liberal Arts College Curriculum: Reconstructing the Dewey-Hutchins Debate

1.3 Jonas Williams
Teaching Creative Writing and Literature After Olson

1.4 Jason Ezell
(Lake) Eden and All Its Serpents: Martin Duberman’s Black Mountain and Queer Historiography

1.5 David Peifer
Max Dehn: An Artist among Mathematicians and a Mathematician among Artists

1.6 Thomas M. Murphy
“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement” John Chamberlain’s “American Tableau, 1984” and the Reagan War Machine.

1.7 John Held, Jr.
Networking Chance: “A Global Situation Involving the Possibility of People Everywhere and Anywhere”

1.8 Maggie McFadden
Black Mountain College, Watauga College, and Me

1.9 Frederick A. Horowitz
What Josef Albers Taught at Black Mountain College, and What Black Mountain College Taught Albers.