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Dewey Decimal Number: 738.092276212
EAN: 9780385490634
ISBN: 0385490631
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2000-10
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: October 17, 2000
Studio: Doubleday
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
An intimate family memoir about the power of love in the face of adversity: the passionate pursuit of art-and the brave art of living simply-by four generations of a fiercely independent Southern family.
Almost a century ago, a New Orleans society woman vowed that her three sons would become artists. Turning her back on bourgeois life and abetted by her skeptical husband-a grain merchant-she bought twenty-eight acres of woodland on the Mississippi Sound. Beside a sleepy bayou, in the shade of towering pines and magnolias, she opened an art colony, one of the first of its kind in the South.
Her passion for art pulled the family through the hard times of the Depression and endured into the present. Her oldest son, Peter Anderson, founded Shearwater Pottery and, yearning "to make Shearwater synonymous with perfection," drew the entire family into his adventure. His brothers, "Mac" and Walter, made strange, wonderful pieces, though Walter Anderson eventually left his wife, his children, and the pottery to search for his own Nirvana and to capture, in writing and in watercolors, the wildlife of the Mississippi Coast.
Drawn by the exquisite work of Shearwater Pottery, the authors discover that painting, poetry, and storytelling-much of it by strong, unforgettable women-are still an essential part of the family's daily life. Intimate diaries, letters, and poems lead the reader into a stormy, passionate, sometimes heartbreaking past. Meticulously researched and compassionately written, Dreaming in Clay gathers one family's eternal legacy of wisdom and beauty: the healing power of art, the consolations of writing and of memory, and the spiritual treasures given to us-if we care to receive them-by the natural world.
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- Wonderful Story of Art in AmericaThis is a great book telling a wonderful story of art in America. This is what American art is all about and how this little pottery enterprise made its mark on the art world. You will enjoy this book very much.
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- CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 10/22/00THE STORY OF A FAMILY'S DEDICATION TO EACH OTHER AND THEIR ART
By Lynna Williams.
Maria Estrella Iglesias, a collector of American art pottery, was in an antiques mall near Nashville when she saw a pottery vase glazed "an extraordinary blue." Seeing it across the cluttered room "was like catching a glimpse of the ocean," and ... Read More
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- Dreaming in Clay -- A Dream of a Book!I wrote the 1st review of this book. There are 3 typo's in the second paragraph. It should read "Shearwater POTTERY not potter, (2) struggled not strugged, and (3) their ART not air. Thanks for letting me make these corrections.
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- Dreaming in Clay --- A Dream of a Book!It is my privilege to be the first person to review DREAMING IN CLAY. I'm sure many others will find it a great book to read and review.
This wonderful book presents the life of a master potter, Peter Anderson, his work, his immediate and extended family, and the evolution of Shearwater Potter in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. It is a book about transformation and affirmation of a family who has strugged and triumphed and the interconnections of the Anderson family, their air, and their ... Read More
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