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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

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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



Table of Contents:
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

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.

Review :
"A small ceramic tile enterprise from 1911 might sound like a niche subject, but with The Splendid Disarray of Beauty, Richard D. Mohr has painted a vivid picture of the role that queer artists played in the American Arts and Crafts movement. There have been quite a few books and exhibition catalogs over the past decades that tackle the Arts and Crafts Movement, but I've never read a clearer explanation of Arts and Crafts aesthetics. By using Cathedral Oaks, the author does an incredible job of connecting the aesthetic dots. The reader gets a very clear picture of the radicality of the Arts and Crafts aesthetic. I found it astounding how clearly these principles could be explained using Cathedral Oaks as a guide. This book illuminates a stunning body of work through in-depth examinations of aesthetics, education, and, most importantly, community."--Garth Johnson, Paul Phillips & Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art "Richard Mohr rescues from oblivion George Austin Dennison (1873-1966) and Charles Frank Ingerson (1879-1968), a lifelong romantic and artistic couple at the center of a thriving artist community, who welcomed many celebrity guests--including violinist Yehudi Menuhin and actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine--to their home in the Santa Cruz mountains. 'The Boys, ' as they were affectionately known, excelled as creators of exquisite ceramic tile, as well as establishing the short-lived, but influential, Cathedral Oaks School of Painting and Design. This handsome volume, including its meticulous research, vibrant prose, and beautifully reproduced images, offers many fascinating delights: an important biographical contribution to queer studies, a contextualized consideration of California's Arts and Crafts Movement, and detailed documentation of the San Francisco Bay Area's rich social history."--Jim Van Buskirk, coauthor of Gay by the Bay


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781956313017
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: The Boydell Press
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Sub Title: The Boys, the Tiles, the Joy of Cathedral Oaks—A Study in Arts and Crafts Community
  • Width: 254 mm
  • ISBN-10: 195631301X
  • Publisher Date: 17 Oct 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1236 gr


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