The Black Mountain School was a group of American poets based at Black Mountain College in the early 1950s, influenced by Charles Olson's concept of 'projective verse'. Their works appeared in the Black Mountain Review.
La Black Mountain School était un groupe de poètes américains basés au Black Mountain College au début des années 1950, influencés par le concept de "vers projectif" de Charles Olson. Leurs œuvres ont été publiées dans la revue Black Mountain Review.
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| Back | a group of American poets based at Black Mountain College in the early 1950s Charles Olson both instructor and rector of the college Olson 'projective verse' which describes poems as open fields conducting energy from the poet to the reader , influenced many of his students, among whom were Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov their works appeared in black mountain review, published from 1954 to 1957 The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid-20th-century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Background Although it lasted only twenty-three years (1933–1956) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College was one of the most fabled experimental institutions in art education and practice. It launched a remarkable number of the artists who spearheaded the avant-garde in the America of the 1960s. It boasted an extraordinary curriculum in the visual, literary, and performing arts as evidenced by some of the artists and teachers listed here: Its art teachers included Anni and Josef Albers, Eric Bentley, Ilya Bolotowsky, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Lyonel Feininger, Franz Kline, Walter Gropius and Robert Motherwell. Among their students were John Chamberlain, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, James Bishop, Ruth Asawa, Stan Vanderbeek, Kenneth Snelson, and Cy Twombly. The performing arts teachers included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Lou Harrison, Roger Sessions, David Tudor, and Stefan Wolpe. Among the literature teachers and students were Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, Paul Goodman, Francine du Plessix Gray, Hilda Morley, Charles Olson, M. C. Richards, Arthur Penn, and John Wieners. Guest lecturers included Albert Einstein, Clement Greenberg, and William Carlos Williams. |
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