Leap Look Book: Exhibition Catalogue as Platonic Object

25th February 2017Black Mountain College, John Dewey, Leap Before You Look, Minus Plato Today, Platonic ObjectBlack Mountatin College, Platonic ObjectMinus Plato

Form doesn’t illuminate itself or point to a timeless Platonic object; it illuminates the material, that is, the world – Thomas Alexander on John Dewey’s Art as Experience

Were we a Dialogue? Diotima at Black Mountain College

5th January 2017Black Mountain College, Dialogue, Leap Before You Look, Minus Plato TodayAlain Badiou, Black Mountain College, Diotima, Francine du Plessix, Leap Before You Look, Socrates, Susan HoweMinus Plato

Today was my first time in the Wexner Center for the Arts after the end of the exhibition Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957. It was a strange experience as I’d lived with that exhibition in such an intimate way over the past few months. I taught two classes that inspired and engaged […]