Practical Utopia : The Many Lives of Dartington Hall Paperback / softback
by Anna Neima
Part of the Modern British Histories series
Paperback / softback
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Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, set up in Devon in 1925 by a fabulously wealthy American heiress, Dorothy Elmhirst (née 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.
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- Publication Date:23/05/2024
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Pre-Order
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:321 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009048729
