The Arts at Black Mountain College

Published by MIT Press, Massachusetts
Edited by Mary Emma Harris
pp. 312, 29.5 x 23 x 2 cm.
ISBN 9780262582124


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.