“Glyphing” at Black Mountain College: New Artistic Languages in the Work of Anni Albers, John Cage, and Charles Olson

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dc.contributorShaw, Robert
dc.contributorLee, Anthony
dc.contributor.advisorBenfey, Chris
dc.contributor.authorMcLean, Hattie
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-01T13:18:06Z
dc.date.available2016-07-01T13:18:06Z
dc.date.gradyear2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-07-01
dc.description.abstractThe legendary Black Mountain College, founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina, cultivated a fascinating and avant-garde community of artists at the forefront of postwar culture in America. While short-lived (the school closed in 1957), the institution’s model of arts-centered education and its distinction as a meeting place for exchange between artists are of everlasting import. In this thesis, I offer a selective view of Black Mountain’s legacy by writing about three of its prominent artists and their projects, including the German artist Anni Albers, composer John Cage, and poet Charles Olson. Through close readings of several of their works of art I uncover similarities in their creative convictions, focusing on their notions of writing and language to seek alternative means of artistic communication. I do this with particular attention to Black Mountain’s widespread interest in the Mayan Hieroglyph, or “glyphs,” as I often refer to them, to study how these three artists conceptualized and idealized the idea of abstract “language.”en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEnglishen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/3915
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedpublicen_US
dc.subjectBlack Mountainen_US
dc.subjectPoetryen_US
dc.subjectFine Arten_US
dc.subjectTheateren_US
dc.subjectDanceen_US
dc.title“Glyphing” at Black Mountain College: New Artistic Languages in the Work of Anni Albers, John Cage, and Charles Olsonen_US
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.modified08-10-2018
dcterms.provenanceDAPS was contacted by the content creator, Hattie McLean, on 09-07-2018 with a request to make this item available to the public. The READ authorization for the main bitstream was changed from "restricted" to "anonymous" by Shaun Trujillo (strujill@mtholyoke.edu) on 09-10-2018
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke College

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