Main entry:

Harris, Mary Emma, 1943-

Title & Author:

The arts at Black Mountain College / Mary Emma Harris.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1987]
©1987

Description:

314 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm

Notes:
Errata slip inserted.
Errata sheet inserted.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-307) and index.
1933-1940: A pioneering venture. A new deal in American education ; Progressivism, Modernism, and the higher learning ; Art as experience ; A log cabin college -- 1940-1945: Education in a time of war. Democracy in action ; The European tradition at Black Mountain ; An American Salzburg ; War's end -- 1945-1949: An essentially American venture. Reaffirmation ; And beyond the duration ; Art as experiment ; Reorganization and resignation -- 1949-1957: A community of correspondences. Olsen's university ; Art as enactment ; Education as conversation; The closing -- Epilogue: Continuations -- Notes -- Faculty and student roster.
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Summary:

"Launched in the depths of the Depression, Black Mountain College had fewer than 1300 pupils over its 24-year lifespan. Yet this haven of experimentation in the North Carolina hills counted among its students and faculty Franz Kline, Walter Gropius, Josef Albers, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert De Niro, Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham and Willem de Kooning, among others. Based on some 300 interviews as well as primary sources, this revealing study by an art historian traces the school's evolution from a small, innovative liberal arts college with a general curriculum to a creative community of practicing artists. Despite bitter internal conflicts and a certain insularity, Black Mountain risked constant financial worries to maintain a democratic openness and willingness to ``let things happen.'' This attractively illustrated chronicle documents the gamut of creativity, from painting to weaving, ceramics, dance, graphic arts and photography."--Alibris.

ISBN:

026208161X
9780262081610

Subject:

Albers, Josef, 1888-1976.
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Black Mountain College.
Black Mountain (N.C.) Black Mountain College.
Arts Study and teaching (Higher) North Carolina Black Mountain.
Arts Study and teaching (Higher) North Carolina Black Mountains.
Arts Étude et enseignement (Supérieur) Caroline du Nord Black Mountains.
Arts Study and teaching (Higher)
Kultur
Kunstonderwijs.
North Carolina Black Mountains
North Carolina Black Mountain
USA
Higher education institutions Curriculum Arts
North Carolina

Form/genre:

Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 9103
Call No.: IDX; ID:87-B13449
Status: Available