Richard D Mohr

The Splendid Disarray of Beauty

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rit Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781956313017
• ISBN-10: 195631301X
• Artikelnr.: 75342017

Autorenporträt

Richard D. Mohr

Inhaltsangabe

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