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The Elmhirsts of Dartington (Paperback)
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The Elmhirsts of Dartington (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Utopias
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Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst were the founders of Dartington - she
the daughter of an American millionaire who was once Secretary to
the US Navy; he the son of a Yorkshire parson and secretary to
Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal before he married Dorothy. They were
the twentieth century's most substantial private patrons of
architecture in England as well as of the arts and education.
Dartington School was one of the most famous experimental schools
in the world. Bertrand Russell sent his children there, as did
Aldous Huxley and the Freuds. Dartington College of Arts and its
associated Summer School of Music were equally famous in the world
of the arts. Bernard Leach taught pottery, Mark Tobey painting, and
Imogen Holst music. The Amadeus Quartet was formed there. Benjamin
Britten and Peter Pears were frequent performers. In a setting of
great beauty, school and college belonged to a general experiment
in rural reconstruction. Dartington Glass was made in the
Devonshire countryside and exported world-wide. So were Dartington
Textiles, Dartington Furniture and Dartington Pottery. This book,
originally published in 1982 (and reissued in 1996), describes how
a unique combination of education, arts, industry and agriculture
came to be put together. The result was one of the hardiest Utopian
communities of modern times. It eventually overcame the strong
local opposition to such a daring undertaking. The author finds the
origins of modern Dartington in the founders' hopes that mankind
would be liberated through education; that a new flowering of the
arts would transform a society impoverished by industrialisation
and secularisation; and that a society seeking to draw together
town and country would combine the best of both worlds. This book
is an extraordinary memoir of two people and the place they made.
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