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The Farm at Black Mountain College

Name: The Farm at Black Mountain College
Brand: Atelier Editions
SKU: 9781954957114
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Contributors:

David Silver (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Ananda Pellerin (Editor)

Publisher:

Atelier Editions

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Art

Book Subcategory:

History, American, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions

Book Topic:

Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Permanent

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Release Date:

2024-12-17

ISBN 13:

9781954957114

Weight:

1.41 lbs

Size:

9.20 x 6.70 x 0.80 inches

Pages:

240

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A record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters

Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its founding in 1933 and over its celebrated 23-year history, the small liberal arts school in rural North Carolina attracted a remarkable number of famous and soon-to-be famous artists, writers and visionaries including Anni and Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Ray Johnson, Charles Olson and M.C. Richards. The exploits of these BMC cultural luminaries have been recounted time and time again.
David Silver's fascinating new book offers a very different perspective. The farm was vital to BMC. Throughout the Depression and World War II it provided vital sustenance, while serving as a testing ground for self-sufficiency, communal living and collaboration--the most precious and precarious ingredient at the college.
Through deep original research, The Farm at Black Mountain College follows renegade students, faculty and farmers as they establish a campus farm in the 1930s, build a better farm in the 1940s and watch it all collapse in the 1950s. We meet a new cast of BMC characters whose stories have seldom, if ever, been explored, and whose adventures in agriculture illuminate what exactly happened at BMC across the decades, from optimistic community building to its plunge into substance-addled scarcity. In these engrossing pages, we encounter the extraordinary folk whose endeavors on the land helped shape the Black Mountain College of myth and extraordinary reality.
David Silver (born 1968) is professor and chair of environmental studies at the University of San Francisco. He teaches classes on urban agriculture, hyperlocal food systems and food, culture and storytelling.

The Farm at Black Mountain College

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