Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi by Christopher Maurer
Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi

Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi


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Almost a century ago, Annette McConnell Anderson, 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.

Backed by his mother's passion for art, her oldest son Peter Anderson founded Shearwater Pottery. Yearning "to make Shearwater synonymous with perfection," he drew the entire family into his adventure. His brothers, "Mac" and Walter, made strange, wonderful pieces, though Walter Anderson eventually left the pottery studio to search for his own artistic path.

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 on the Coast of Mississippi 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 us by the natural world.


About the Author: Christopher Maurer, head of the Department of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Illinois-Chicago, is author (with Maria Estrella Iglesias) of Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater, published by University Press of Mississippi. His work has appeared in the New Republic, the New York Times, Hispanic Review, and El País (Madrid). Maria Estrella Iglesias has taught at Harvard University and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her collection of American art pottery was featured on Home and Garden TV and her jewelry on Sundays with Liz Walker (Boston CBS4) and Chronicle.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781604734591
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
  • Depth: 32
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 38 mm
  • Weight: 634 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1604734590
  • Publisher Date: 18 Apr 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 358
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Love and Art at Shearwater
  • Width: 159 mm


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