Byrdcliffe

by Green, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780964604209
• ISBN10: 0964604205
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

Byrdcliffe was, and remains, a place of haunting beauty. One hundred years ago, it was established as an Arts and Crafts colony in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. Craftsmen, writers, and musicians came, lured by the atmosphere of creativity amid like-minded people. Furniture, pottery, paintings, metalwork, and textiles were all made there and the people themselves became an interwoven part of the fabric of the place. This is the story of the first years of the colony, the artists who visited, and the artistic community they fostered in Woodstock, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 8
Introduction	p. 10
Byrdcliffe's history	p. 16
The reality of beauty : Ralph Whitehead and the seeds of a utopia in John Ruskin, William Morris, and Victorian England	p. 36
Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead : cofounder of the Byrdcliffe Art School	p. 56
Byrdcliffe furniture : imagination versus reality	p. 74
Art at Byrdcliffe	p. 92
Purely for pleasure : ceramics at Byrdcliffe	p. 108
Nature and artifice in the architecture of Byrdcliffe	p. 120
Works in the exhibition	p. 162
Cast of characters	p. 222
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