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Article: Creative mayhem preserved: Black Mountain College, rich with theatrical history, gets a museum.
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- American Theatre
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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The locals referred to them as "the mentals." For more than 20 years, artists, poets and performers such as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Merce Cunningham and John Cage would descend on Black Mountain College, creating experimental work that earned the school the reputation as the birthplace of the American avant-garde.
Even today, almost 40 years after its closing in 1957, Black Mountain College remains an enigma to most members of this small Smokey Mountain community near Asheville in western North Carolina. But now, plans have been announced that intend to shed light on this important chapter in modern art. The ...