It was at Black Mountain College that Merce Cunningham formed
his dance company, John Cage staged his first "happening," and
Buckminster Fuller built his first dome. Although it lasted only
twenty-four years (1933-1957) and enrolled fewer than 1,200
students, Black Mountain College launched a remarkable number of
the artists who spearheaded the avant-garde in America of the
1960s. The faculty included such diverse talents as Anni and Josef
Albers, Eric Bentley, Ilya Bolotowsky, Robert Creeley, Willem de
Kooning, Robert Duncan, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Goodman, Walter
Gropius, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Charles Olson. Among
the students were Ruth Asawa, John Chamberlain, Francine du Plessix
Gray, Kenneth Noland, Arthur Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth
Snelson, Cy Twombly, Stan Vanderbeek, and Jose Yglesias.In this
definitive account of the arts at Black Mountain College, back in
print after many years, Mary Emma Harris describes a unique
educational experiment and the artists and writers who conducted
it. She replaces the myth of the college as a haphazardly conceived
venture with a portrait of a consciously directed liberal arts
school that grew out of the progressive education movement.
Proceeding chronologically through the four major periods of the
college's history, Harris covers every aspect of its extraordinary
curriculum in the visual, literary, and performing arts.
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