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.
