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Dynamic Design - Jay Hambidge, Mary Crovatt Hambidge, and the Founding of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (Hardcover)
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Dynamic Design - Jay Hambidge, Mary Crovatt Hambidge, and the Founding of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (Hardcover)
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Mary Crovatt Hambidge (1885-1973) was an aspiring actress and a
professional whistler on Broadway when she met Canadian-born Jay
Hambidge (1867-1924), an artist, illustrator, and scholar. Their
relationship would prove to be both a romantic and an artistic
partnership. Jay Hambidge formulated his own artistic concept,
known as Dynamic Symmetry, which stipulated that the compositional
rules found in nature's symmetry should be applied to the creation
of art. Mary Hambidge pioneered new techniques of weaving and
dyeing fabric that merged Greek methods with Appalachian weaving
and spinning traditions. The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and
Sciences, formed during the mid-1930s, provides an artists'
community situated on six hundred rural acres in the north Georgia
mountains where hundreds of visual artists, writers, potters,
composers, dancers, and other artists have pursued their crafts.
Dynamic Design details Jay Hambidge and Mary Crovatt Hambidge's
cross-cultural and cross-historical explorations and examines their
lasting contributions to twentieth-century art and cultural
history. Virginia Gardner Troy illustrates how Jay and Mary were
important independently and collectively, providing a wider
understanding of their lives within the larger context of late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art and design. They were
from two different worlds, nearly a generation apart in age, and
only together for ten years, but their lives intertwined at a
pivotal moment in their development. They shared parallel goals to
establish a place where they could integrate the arts and crafts
around the principles of Dynamic Symmetry. Troy explores how this
dynamic duo's ideas and artistic expressions have resonated with
admirers throughout the decades and reflect the trends and
complexities of American culture through various waves of
cosmopolitanism, utopianism, nationalism, and isolationism. The
Hambidges' prolific partnership and forward-thinking vision
continue to aid and inspire generations of aspiring artists and
artisans.
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