{"product_id":"the-arts-at-black-mountain-college-9780262582124","title":"The Arts at Black Mountain College","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt 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 colleges history  Harris covers every aspect of its extraordinary curriculum in the visual  literary  and performing arts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495911186485,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262582120","price":102.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262582124.jpg?v=1780903530","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-arts-at-black-mountain-college-9780262582124","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}