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The Arts at Black Mountain College by Mary Emma Harris (Paperback, 2002)

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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 24 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 account of the arts at Black Mountain College, Mary Emma Harris describes an 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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Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9780262582124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95636854

Product Key Features

Book Title
The Arts at Black Mountain College
Author
Mary EMMA Harris
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Coaching & Career Guidance
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Genre
Art & Culture
Number of Pages
344 Pages

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Item Height
305mm
Item Width
241mm
Item Weight
1315g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Mary EMMA Harris
Series Title
The MIT Press
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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