Splendid Disarray of Beauty

The Boys, the Tiles, the Joy of Cathedral Oaks—A Study in Arts and Crafts Community

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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The Splendid Disarray of Beauty: The Boys, the Tiles, the Joy of Cathedral Oaks-A Study in Arts and Crafts Community retrieves from obscurity the story of the California artists Frank Ingerson (1879-1968) and George Dennison (1873-1966), known among their friends as "the Boys." In August 1910, they began fifty-five years of love and life together by launching a freestanding summer art school. The Cathedral Oaks school was bohemian in lifestyle but rigorously followed the teachings of the dean of American Arts and Crafts design, Arthur Wesley Dow.The Boys went on to lead glamorous lives as interior designers in Hollywood and Europe-hobnobbing with Academy Award winners and dining with the Peerage. Married in substance one hundred years before California law got up to their speed, they are two of the most fascinating and admirable people you may have never heard of-until now

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-17
Mått:254 x 279 x 23 mm
Vikt:1 236 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:156
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9781956313017
Utmärkelser:Commended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (LGBTQ+ Nonfiction) 2024

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Richard D. Mohr is the author of Gays/Justice (1988), Pottery, Politics, Art (2003), God and Forms in Plato (2007), and several other books. Since 1993, he has been a regular contributor to the Journal of the American Art Pottery Association. He is professor emeritus of philosophy and of the classics at the University of Illinois-Urbana.

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List of Illustrations ixIntroduction: An Art School in the Mountains 1The Arts and Crafts Principles of Cathedral Oaks 13The School's Culture and Methods 13The American Arts and Crafts Aesthetic: The Theories of Arthur Wesley Dow 18Conventionalization: A Second Sailing 20The School's Long Path to Dow 24The Men of Cathedral Oaks 29The School's Impresarios: George Austin Dennison (1873-1966) and Charles Frank Ingerson (1879-1968) 29George Austin Dennison's Early Life 29Charles Frank Ingerson's Early Life 31Ingerson and Dennison Marry and Have a School 32Ingerson's Assistant: Pedro J. Lemos (1882-1954) 36The School's Ceramic Engineer: Albert Louis Solon (1887-1949) 40The Women of Cathedral Oaks 45Calthea Campbell Vivian (1857-1943) 45Nellie M. Powers (1862-1943) and Fannie Kerns (1878-1968) 50Other Cathedral Oaks Students 51The Art of Cathedral Oaks 53Why Tiles? 53Tile Designs - and Designers 58Designs Borrowed and Lent, Swiped and Lost 70Tile Types and Uses 80The Glazes 86Clay and Fire 90Coda: The School's Last Two Years and the Boys' Last Fifty - In Brief 101Appendix: The Dates of the Tiles Explained 113Notes 117Acknowledgments 139Colophon 141