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The arts at Black Mountain College / Mary Emma Harris.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1987.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 314 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cmISBN:
  • 9780262581004
  • 9780262081610
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Contents:
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.
Summary: Although it lasted only 24 years (1933-1957), was beset by financial woes, and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College provided an extraordinary legacy an abundance of creative talent that shaped a whole movement of modern art in America.

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.

Although it lasted only 24 years (1933-1957), was beset by financial woes, and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College provided an extraordinary legacy an abundance of creative talent that shaped a whole movement of modern art in America.