From the beginning it was the striving of the young community to create holistic healing surroundings – it could be called a holistic social artistry, a social «Gesamtkunstwerk» including all areas of social life, from the healthy daily, weekly and yearly rhythms «rituals» and celebrations, to the incorporation of the arts in all aspects of life, including the enhancing of everyday objects, from architecture and landscaping to furniture, lighting, fabrics and appliances. Everything was to carry the ideal of making social life itself, the encounter of one human being to another, an artistic, cultural and also healing experience.
We’re excited to feature new research on the Camphill Research Network. Our colleague Richard Steel from the Karl König Institute has published a small book on the artistic impulse in the Camphill movement. The book features many artistic works from early Camphill artists, and makes the case that art is essential to the mission of the Camphill movement.
Be sure to explore our Hermann Gross gallery here on the Camphill Research Network, and stay tuned for more galleries soon.
Richard will be presenting this work this weekend in partnership with The Mount Camphill. See their website for more details, including videos from previous conferences on art in anthroposophy.
