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Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center view detail comment email this

This site features a brief history of Black Mountain College, an alternative college in North Carolina open from 1933-1956; a list of related books; annotated links, browsable by Institutions with collections related to the College, and Alumni . There is also brief information on Teachers and students, including founder John Andrew Rice, poet Charles Olson, composer John Cage, dancer Merce Cunningham, and architect Richard Buckminster Fuller. Here you can also find activities, news, and artwork from the Center's Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina.
http://www.blackmountaincollege.org/
Topics: Art by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Museums

Last updated Jun 11, 2003


The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change view detail comment email this

Information about the social movements of the 1960s in the United States, with emphasis on the literature of the period. Features articles and images on the Beats, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, Timothy Leary, the Black Mountain Poets, hippies, Woodstock, illicit drugs, protests, and much more. Includes images of handbills, posters, and other memorabilia from the 1960s. From the University of Virginia Library.
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/
Topics: Activism, Drugs & Medications by Type, Literary Movements and Periods, Poetry, Society & Social Science, Society & Social Science

Last updated Dec 6, 2008




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