Red brick, black mountain, white clay, reflections on art, family, and survival, Christopher Benfey
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Red brick, black mountain, white clay, reflections on art, family, and survival, Christopher Benfey
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-281) and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Red brick, black mountain, white clay
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bibliography
Responsibility statement
Christopher Benfey
Sub title
reflections on art, family, and survival
Summary
Following his family back through the generations, renowned critic Christopher Benfey unearths an ancestry--and an aesthetic--that is quintessentially American. His mother descends from colonial craftsmen, such as the Quaker artist-explorer William Bartram. Benfey's father--along with his aunt and uncle, the famed Bauhaus artists Josef and Anni Albers--escaped from Nazi Europe by fleeing to the American South. Struggling to find themselves in this new world, Benfey's family found strength and salvation in the rich craft tradition grounded in America's vast natural landscape
Table Of Contents
The bamboo grove -- Jugtown -- The snuffbox -- Mexico -- The meander -- On the divide -- Cherokee clay -- Wedgwood -- Xanadu -- Arrangement in gray and black
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