The Splendid Disarray of Beauty: The Boys, the Tiles, the Joy of Cathedral Oaks―A Study in Arts and Crafts Community (Arts and Crafts Movement) - Hardcover

Mohr, Richard D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 195631301X ISBN 13: 9781956313017

Publisher: RIT Press, 2023

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: RIT Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 195631301X
• ISBN 13: 9781956313017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 156