The Exploration Of Modernism In The Pioneer Art Experiment Field

Located in a remote village in southwest North Carolina(near Asheville),Black Mountain College was founded by John Andrew Rice in 1933 and closed with a short life of only 23 years: Although short-lived in the artistic design history, this seemingly loose and undisciplined college not only attracted a faculty that included lot of famous Bauhaus artists, like Josef Albers, Marcal Breuer, Fernand Leger, Lyonel Feininger, Xanti Schawinsky and cultivated many America’s leading modern artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Ray Johnson and Kenneth Noland.Although it could only accommodate 50 students, Black Mountain College had a close connection with New York City and many artists had been tutors here, who often exhibited their works in the Museum of Modern Art, Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of this Century, Charles Egan Gallery, Betty Parsons Gallery, This college attracted a lot of ambitious artists over its lifetime to create an ideal “free experimental community”, But why Black Mountain College ? It is a valuable question worth thinking about.From 1970 s, Black Mountain culture in USA has been attracting more and more attention. As s ome former famous teachers and students died off from the beginning of 21 st century, it once agai n becomes a focal point. Studies on Black Mountain College have scored great success abroad and there are still museums which dedicated to explore the history of Black Mountain College in Ashe ville at the present time. However, researches on artistic design education are relatively scattered. Meanwhile, domestic scholars often only talked about Bauhaus and there is less study on how desi gn-education developed after Bauhaus and how the ideas and theories of Bauhaus spread. Accordi ngly, by carding the historical information and literatures in this study, we aim to reappear the dev elopment of design-education in Black Mountain College and its influences on America post-war design education...