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Black Mountain College (Mid 20th Century)


Black Mountain College
Experimental liberal arts college at Black Mountain, NC, open from 1933 to 1957. In the 1940s and early 1950s it was a centre for a group of painters, architects, musicians and poets associated particularly with the development of performance and multimedia work, crossing many disciplines. It was founded by John Andrew Rice (1888–1968) and a group of students and staff from Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. It was located in the Blue Ridge Assembly Buildings, ... (view more)

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Artists Associated with Black Mountain College — 10 artists:

Josef Albers
Robert R Bliss
John Cage
John Angus Chamberlain
Willem DeKooning

Robert Duncan
Fannie Hillsmith
Robert Motherwell
Robert Rauschenberg
Dorothea Rockburne

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