Eva Díaz discusses her new book, The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College, during a presentation at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center on Thursday, Aug. 6.
Press release from BMCM+AC:
Free Presentation and Book Signing by BMC Scholar Eva Díaz
Thursday, August 6, 7:00 p.m.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville
A free presentation by Eva Díaz, art historian and author of The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College, a new book published by University of Chicago Press.The publication of Eva Díaz’s new book The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College (University of Chicago Press, 2015) provides the occasion for a talk about the risks and possibilities of using the concept of the “test” as a lens to produce, teach, and understand art. Díaz’s book examines how an interdisciplinary group of artists proposed new models of art practice around the concept of experimentation, and focuses on three key Black Mountain teachers in the late 1940s and early 1950s: Josef Albers, John Cage, and Buckminster Fuller. In addition, in this presentation Diaz will connect the work of The Experimenters to her current book project, The Fuller Effect: The Critique of Total Design in Postwar Art. This new project explores the legacy of Buckminster Fuller in contemporary art, and Diaz will share some of her research on changing ideas about nomadic habitation, capsule architecture, and space colonization.
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