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With faculty and alumni that included John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, Josef and Anni Albers, Paul Goodman, and Robert Rauschenberg, Black Mountain College ranked among the most important artistic and intellectual communities of the twentieth century. In his groundbreaking history, Martin Duberman uses interviews, anecdotes, and research to depict the relationships that made Black Mountain College what it was. ""Black Mountain"" documents the college's twenty-three-year tenure, from its most brilliant moments of self-reinvention to its lowest moments of petty infighting. It records the financial difficulties that beleaguered the community throughout its existence and the determination it took to keep the college in operation. Duberman creates a nuanced portrait of this community so essential to the development of American arts and counterculture.
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"Fascinating history with a resonance that far exceeds the experience of the Black Mountaineers themselves."--Newsweek
"Reading the book, it is hard to imagine how it might have been done more intelligently."--Catharine R. Stimpson, The Nation
"[Black Mountain] leaps beyond the discipline of history in its significance . . . Henceforth debates about the relation between historian and sources will have to take account of this radically new model for doing history."--Jesse Lemisch, New York Times Book Review
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Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the City University of New York. He is the author of some twenty books, including Charles Francis Adams (winner of the Bancroft Prize)
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- PublisherNorthwestern University Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0810125943
- ISBN 13 9780810125940
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages616
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