The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College Bjarne Melgaard is spread across the floor

is spread across the floor of the lower gallery and takes its name from the title of the exhibition

Adriana Lazarova

and a bibliography and checklist that map patterns and relationships between radical thought and artistic practices – from the modernist avant-gardes to postmodernism

and queerness

questions the women’s liberation movement and ‘sex wars’ of the mid 20th century

The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College Bjarne Melgaard is spread across the floorUniversity of Chicago Press, 2014, Hardcover, 242 pages, 25 17 cm In the years immediately following World War II, Black Mountain College, an unaccredited school in rural Appalachia, became a vital hub of cultural innovation. Practically every major artistic figure of the mid twentieth century spent some time there: Merce Cunningham, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne,