and queerness
questions the women’s liberation movement and ‘sex wars’ of the mid 20th century
class and gender oppression
is spread across the floor of the lower gallery and takes its name from the title of the exhibition
and Sartre
The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College Bjarne Melgaard and queernessUniversity 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,