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Dictionary definition: Black Mountain College
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- A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
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Black Mountain College.
American art educational establishment at Black Mountain, North Carolina, founded in 1933 by a group of progressive academics led by John Andrew Rice (1888–1968) and closed in 1957 after long-standing financial problems. It was owned and administered by the teaching staff, with no outside control, and was kept deliberately small (with an average of about 50 students a year) to reduce administration; a variety of arts were taught and interaction between them was encouraged. Mary Emma Harris, a leading historian of the college, has written of it: ‘At Black Mountain learning and experience were to be closely bound, and emotional maturity and the ...