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Article: Return to Black Mountain.(Book review)(Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art)(Book Review)
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- Art in America
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- September 1, 2003
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Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art, edited by Vincent Katz, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2002; 328 pages, $75.
Black Mountain College occupies a near-mythic position in the history of American modernism. In 1933, the year it was founded, Josef and Anni Albers brought their particular vision of the Bauhaus to the United States, and soon invited emigre artists like themselves to teach at the school they had joined in southwestern North Carolina. It was amid this community of exiles in 1944 that Arnold Schoenberg and his followers met to develop their approach to 12-tone music. Black Mountain is also the legendary place where, in 1952, composer John Cage staged the ...