Black Mountain College
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Black Mountain College was an experimental liberal arts college in North Carolina renowned for its avant-garde approach to arts education and its influential community of modern artists, writers, and thinkers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Black Mountain College canonical | 30 |
| 1948 Summer Institute | 1 |
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art school
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experimental liberal arts college ⓘ |
| campus | Lake Eden campus ⓘ |
| closureReason | financial difficulties ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dissolvedIn | 1957 ⓘ |
| educationalPhilosophy | progressive education ⓘ |
| emphasis |
architecture
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crafts ⓘ dance ⓘ music ⓘ poetry ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
John Andrew Rice
ⓘ
Theodore Dreier ⓘ other dissident faculty from Rollins College ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1933 ⓘ |
| governance |
faculty-run
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student participation in decision-making ⓘ |
| hadEvent |
Black Mountain College
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
1948 Summer Institute
1952 Theater Piece No. 1 performance ⓘ |
| hadFaculty |
Anni Albers
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Buckminster Fuller ⓘ Charles Olson ⓘ Franz Kline ⓘ John Cage ⓘ Josef Albers ⓘ M.C. Richards ⓘ Merce Cunningham ⓘ Robert Creeley ⓘ Robert Motherwell ⓘ Willem de Kooning ⓘ |
| hadStudent |
Arthur Penn
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Cy Twombly ⓘ Ed Dorn ⓘ Fielding Dawson ⓘ Kenneth Noland ⓘ Robert Rauschenberg ⓘ Ruth Asawa ⓘ |
| influenced |
Abstract expressionism
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surface form:
American abstract expressionism
Black Mountain poets ⓘ postwar avant-garde in the United States ⓘ |
| influencedBy | John Dewey ⓘ |
| knownFor |
artist-run governance
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avant-garde arts education ⓘ community-based learning ⓘ experimental teaching methods ⓘ influential modernist art community ⓘ interdisciplinary curriculum ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| legacy | model for experimental colleges and art schools ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Asheville metropolitan area
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surface form:
Asheville area
Black Mountain, North Carolina ⓘ North Carolina ⓘ |
| notableWorkProduced | early happenings in performance art ⓘ |
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
this entity surface form:
1948 Summer Institute