Practical Utopia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781316517970)

Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, set up in Devon in 1925 by a fabulously wealthy American heiress, Dorothy Elmhirst (n馥 Whitney), and her Yorkshire-born husband, Leonard. It quickly achieved international fame with its progressive school, craft production and wide-ranging artistic endeavours. Dartington was a residential community of students, teachers, farmers, artists and craftsmen committed to revivifying life in the countryside. It was also a socio-cultural laboratory, where many of the most brilliant interwar minds came to test out their ideas about art, society, spirituality and rural regeneration. To this day, Dartington Hall remains a symbol of countercultural experimentation and a centre for arts, ecology and social justice. Practical Utopia presents a compelling portrait of a group of people trying to live out their ideals, set within an international framework, and demonstrates Dartington's tangled affinities with other unity-seeking projects across Britain and in India and America.

Author: Anna Neima
ISBN-10: 1316517977
ISBN-13: 9781316517970
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2022
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d