This book creates a space for the history of Black Mountain College,
which provided a new creative home for many World War II refugees
in Europe from 1933 to 1957 and allowed the Bauhaus to live on in the
United States. A unique place of freedom and creativity that became
home to some of the most important artists of the 20th century!
In 1992, Erik Schmitt attended the reunion of Black Mountain
College in San Francisco. The school is credited with shaping some
of the greatest artists in American history: Willem de Kooning,
John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Franz Kline, and
Robert Rauschenberg among them. Schmitt was invited because
his two aunts and their family friend Ruth Asawa attended BMC. He
took extensive notes that day and took photographs at the cocktail
party after the event at Ruth Asawa’s home. Those quotes and photographs
are the foundation of the book American Bauhaus.
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