BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE

Even though it never had more than 100 students at any time in its regular sessions, it was, by the measure of producing avant-garde professionals, the most successful art school ever in America—an American Bauhaus, although, unlike the original Bauhaus it did not produce any major styles identifiable with it. One way in which Black Mountain College transcended its prototype was in incorporating music into the curriculum. Among its distinguished alumni are the painters Robert Rauschenberg...