Background
Harris, Mary Emma was born on July 11, 1943 in Kinston, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Aubrey Eugene and Dorothy (Rouse) Harris.
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It was at Black Mountain College that Merce Cunningham formed his dance company, John Cage staged his first "happening," and Buckminster Fuller built his first dome. Although it lasted only twenty-four years (1933-1957) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College launched a remarkable number of the artists who spearheaded the avant-garde in America of the 1960s. The faculty included such diverse talents as Anni and Josef Albers, Eric Bentley, Ilya Bolotowsky, Robert Creeley, Willem de Kooning, Robert Duncan, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Goodman, Walter Gropius, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Charles Olson. Among the students were Ruth Asawa, John Chamberlain, Francine du Plessix Gray, Kenneth Noland, Arthur Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Snelson, Cy Twombly, Stan Vanderbeek, and Jose Yglesias.In this definitive account of the arts at Black Mountain College, back in print after many years, Mary Emma Harris describes a unique educational experiment and the artists and writers who conducted it. She replaces the myth of the college as a haphazardly conceived venture with a portrait of a consciously directed liberal arts school that grew out of the progressive education movement. Proceeding chronologically through the four major periods of the college's history, Harris covers every aspect of its extraordinary curriculum in the visual, literary, and performing arts.
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This book is a unique document of a Black Mountain College reunion held in 1995. All former students were invited to decorate a 18 X 24 panel with work that reflected themselves or their Black Mountain College experience. A hundred and ten responded, and the catalogue reproduces all their contributions. The variety, richness, humor, and profundity of their voices are amazing.
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art historian landscape designer
Harris, Mary Emma was born on July 11, 1943 in Kinston, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Aubrey Eugene and Dorothy (Rouse) Harris.
Bachelor, Greensboro College, 1965. Master of Arts, University North Carolina, 1974. Certified landscape design & commercial horticultural, New York Botanical Garden, 1991.
Member education department Detroit Institute Art, 1969-1970. Research director Black Mountain College Research North Carolina Museum Art, Raleigh, 1970-1973. Independent scholar New York City, since 1973.
Private practice landscape designer and horticulturist, since 1992. Chair, project director Black Mountain College Project, Inc., since 1999.
( It was at Black Mountain College that Merce Cunningham ...)
(This book is a unique document of a Black Mountain Colleg...)
(Back in print with a new foreword!)
(Reprint)
Member Association Indiana Historian Art (treasurer).