THE ARTS AT BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1988. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Second printing. 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. This definitive account describes a unique educational experiment and the artists and writers who conducted it. 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. Quarto: 315 p. with numerous photographs and illustrations (some color). Original green cloth binding, with black titles and decorative blind stamping. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Some uneven sun fading to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. (Inventory #: 77412)