Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Achilles, shield of, 151–52
Adams, Henry, 267
Africa, pottery traditions of, 64, 72
Albers, Anni, 123–30, 126, 133, 138, 140
appearance of, 125, 128, 129
Bauhaus and, 13, 123–28, 130
at Black Mountain College, 13, 82, 123, 128–30, 132–35, 137, 142, 143, 146–47, 152, 153, 155, 156, 162–63, 169, 170, 183–84
meander pattern used by, 148, 149, 153
in Mexico, 113, 116–17, 116, 120, 134, 137, 156
parents’ immigration and, 82
war, views on, 133–34, 135
Albers, Josef, 125–32, 129, 136–41, 138, 139, 153, 163, 166, 181
art as viewed by, 143–44, 170
Bauhaus and, 13, 115, 123, 125–28, 130
at Black Mountain College, 13, 128–32, 134, 135, 137, 142, 143, 146, 147, 152, 153, 155, 156, 162–63, 168, 169–70, 174, 183–84
in Mexico, 113, 115, 116, 116, 120–21, 137, 156
Alcott, Bronson, 167
Alexander, Cecily, 257
Alexander, William Cleverly, 256–57
Alfred University, 169, 171, 172
alkaline ceramic tradition, 204–5
Altenhofer, Norbert, 102–3
America (Josef Albers), 139
“America Between East and West” (Leach), 171
American Friends Service Committee, 25, 109, 135, 137, 156
American Revolution, 13–14, 32, 187, 226, 247
Amherst, Lord Jeffrey, 237
Anselmo, Jerry, 195–96
Apollo, 93, 93, 99–104
“Apollogott, Der” (“The God Apollo”) (Heine), 100–102
archaeology, 10–11, 12, 116, 134, 198, 214, 226
architecture, 19–20, 53, 113, 137
at Black Mountain, 129, 135, 172
in Italy, 126–27
Ariadne, 147, 150, 151, 152, 161
Asawa as, 157–58, 158
Arndt, Walter, 102
Arnold, Edwin, 171
Arrangement in Grey and Black (Whistler), 58, 255–58, 255, 262–70
art, 14, 113, 124–28, 130–32, 137–44, 153–61, 174–80
American, 15, 260–61
Apollonian vs. Dionysian tendencies in, 183–84
of Asawa, 153–60, 157
Black Mountain and, 137, 142, 155, 174–75
Indian, 248–49
of J. Albers, 142, 143, 162, 163
of Rachel Benfey, 13, 53, 143–44, 182, 191, 266
of Rivera, 115–16, 121–22, 139
see also specific works
Arts and Crafts movement, 50, 210
Asawa, Ruth, 130, 153–60, 157, 158, 162
Asheville, N.C., 144–45, 155
Asimov, Isaac, 76, 87
astrology, 76
atom bomb, 86–87
Atypical Pneumonia Experiment, 31
Augusta, Ga., 234–38, 242
Augustus II (Augustus the Strong), 199–200
Bailey, William, 192
bamboo, 22, 23–24, 36, 42, 44, 54, 71
Barlow, Joel, 8–9
Barr, Alfred, 268
Barton, Benjamin Smith, 248
Bartram, Ann Mendenhall, 230
Bartram, Elizabeth, 230
Bartram, John, 227–28, 230, 231, 233, 247, 248
Bartram, William, 14, 188, 227–31, 233–53
drawings of, 229, 233–34, 235, 242
fall of, 247
psychological world of, 228–29
basalt, 224
basketball, 5, 6–7, 11
Baudelaire, Charles, 261
Bauhaus, 13, 115, 123–28, 130, 137, 143, 148, 156, 168, 171, 209
Beales, Bobby, 7
Beider, Alexander, 103
belle Irlandaise, La (Courbet), 261
Ben Feibisch (“Son of Feibisch”), 93, 100–104
Benfey, Arnold, 83, 84
Benfey, Christopher (author):
in Berlin, 77, 88–93
Black Mountain visited by, 142–43, 152–53, 162
childhood and adolescence of, 1–11, 21–23
education of, 55, 56
family background of, 6, 11, 13, 14, 19–27, 230
fitting-in efforts of, 5–6
hair of, 5–6, 9–10
in Japan, 53–62, 71, 266
in Mexico, 107–12
poetry of, 37–38
reading of, 5, 7, 10, 55, 108, 110
in San Francisco, 158–60, 162
stamp collecting of, 73, 269
survivalist fantasies of, 7–9
teaching of, 3, 142
transformation of, 6–7, 9–10
Benfey, Eduard, 79–85, 91, 93
Benfey, Ernst, 83
Benfey, Isaak Philipp, 99–100
Benfey, Lotte, 79, 81–85, 88, 102, 113, 119, 124
Benfey, Meta, 95, 100
Benfey, Nicholas, 88–89, 91, 107, 158
Benfey, Otto Theodor (Ted), 11, 13, 42–43, 44, 73–93, 118, 119
alienation of, 86–87
diary of, 74, 84–85
interrupted childhood of, 76–82, 85–86, 87, 159–60
in Japan, 53, 54, 56, 75
Jewish background of, 6, 24, 76–77, 79–83, 91
as Quaker, 87
Rachel Benfey’s meeting of, 35
sports and, 6
on suffering, 108, 110
teaching of, 3, 10, 35, 143, 210–11
wedding and honeymoon of, 23–24, 36, 190, 192, 210
Benfey, Philip (author’s brother), 22, 44, 74, 143
Benfey, Philip (Theodor’s brother), 100
Benfey, Rachel Elizabeth Thomas, 23–39, 44, 211, 268–69
as artist, 13, 53, 143–44, 182, 191, 266
Busbee home visited by, 53
family background of, 6, 13, 20–23, 39, 230
late years of, 254–55, 256, 258, 259, 269
O. T. Benfey’s meeting of, 35
tragic romance of, 13, 24–38, 32, 73
weddings and honeymoon of, 23–24, 36, 42–43, 182, 190, 210
Benfey, Renate, 36, 80, 81, 82, 142–43
Benfey, Rudolf, 80, 81, 82, 91, 102, 118
Benfey, Simline, 100
Benfey, Stephen, 22, 53–54, 55, 74, 142, 143, 152, 153, 158
Benfey, Theodor, 77, 92–103, 95
Benfey, Tommy, 77–81, 88–91, 107
Benjamin, Walter, 79–80
Bentley, Thomas, 224
benzene, 74
Berlin, 24, 76–81, 88–93, 102, 113, 114, 117–19, 124, 140, 162
Bauhaus in, 13, 127–28
Benfeystrasse in, 92
court building in, 91–92
Love Parade in, 88–89
Olympic Games in, 80–81, 91
O. T. Benfey’s former apartment in, 90–91
zoo in, 92
Berryman, John, 41
bike riding, 8, 32, 33, 33, 36
Binford, Raymond, 28
birds, 240, 242, 248
Bishop, Elizabeth, 41
Black Mountain College, 13, 28, 60, 82, 113, 120, 123, 128–34, 137, 140, 162–63, 166–76, 181–84
Asawa at, 130, 153, 155–56, 157, 162
author’s visit to, 142–47, 152–53, 162
divide at the heart of, 183–84
Karnes at, 15, 142, 164, 166–67, 166, 168, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 181, 182
Olson and, 170, 171–72, 184
Pot Shop at, 172, 173, 176, 181
Quiet House at, 135, 152
Study Wing at, 146
Black Mountain poets, 55–56, 184
blacks, 2, 6, 24, 29–30, 155, 188–89
in sports, 81, 91
Black-White-Red (Anni Albers), 126, 127
Blake, William, 211
Blue Clay Falls, 8–9
Bly, Robert, 110
Bolzius, John (or Johann) Martin, 201–2
bombing, 86–87, 89, 114, 154
“Booger Dance,” Ross’s painting of, 190
Bopp, Franz, 94, 101
Böttger, Johann Friedrich, 200
Boulton, Matthew, 223
bowls, 52, 209–11, 210, 220
Bow Porcelain Factory, 204
bricklayers, brick, 4, 4, 144, 206
Josef Albers’s work with, 132, 138–39, 138
Thomas family and, 4, 13, 15, 19, 20–21
Broch, Alice, 84
Brook Farm, 167
Brooklyn College, 168, 169
Brooks, Jon, 146–47
Buchenwald, 83
Buck Creek Camp (Camp 19), 28
Buddhism, 94, 96, 174
Buffalo Lick, 238–39
Busbee, Jacques, 48, 50–53, 60, 70, 71
Busbee, Juliana, 48, 50–51, 53, 60
Cage, John, 13, 130, 142, 156, 164, 166, 174–77, 181, 184
California, 136–37, 153, 156–60, 162
Calumet, 28–31
Cambridge, Mass., 83–84, 102
Cameron, N.C., 19–25, 24, 42, 44–47, 71
clay of, 66–69
Canada, 34, 39
Cardew, Michael, 64, 70
Cather, Willa, 179–80
“cattle boats,” 31
Centering (Richards), 176
Champion, Richard, 226
Charleston, S.C., 197–98, 204, 205, 217, 219, 223, 239
W. Bartram in, 234, 247
Charlot, Jean, 146
Charlotte, Queen, 213–14
Chateaubriand, François-René de, 11
chemistry, 74, 86–87
Chemistry, 74, 76
Chermayeff, Serge, 168
Cherokee, 13, 36, 49, 187–90, 195, 196, 198, 201, 203, 204, 215, 217–22, 225–26
Augusta meeting of, 234–38, 242
Griffith’s deal with, 219–20
W. Bartram and, 234, 237, 239, 242–45, 248, 252
Cherokee, N.C., 189–90
Cherokee Artists’ Collective, 190
Cherokee clay, 12, 187–88, 191, 193–99, 201–5
W. Bartram’s discovery of, 245–46
Wedgwood’s search for, 13–14, 187–88, 211–12, 215–23, 232, 233
Wedgwood’s use for, 225–26, 253
Cherokee War (1760–61), 218, 237
Chile, 263, 267
China, 52, 66, 70, 251, 252, 253
geometry in, 75–76
porcelain of, 48, 187, 198, 199, 200, 203, 204–5, 215, 257, 263–64, 265
“Chips from a Double-Bit Axe” (Calumet column), 28–31
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 27
Civilian Public Service (CPS) work camps, 26–31, 36, 135–37
Civil War, U.S., 257, 262, 266–67
Clark, Garth, 178
Clark, William, 247–48
clay, 12–15, 66–69, 174, 177, 178–79
Cameron, 66–69
composition of, 48
in Japan, 58, 61
Josef Albers’s dislike of, 169–70
origin of word, 48
red, 12, 13, 15, 19, 61, 66, 144, 194
residual, 48, 49
sedimentary, 48–49
see also Cherokee clay; white clay
Coffin, Levi, 2, 39, 40, 191
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 14, 93, 188, 229, 249–53
Collinson, Peter, 233
color, 127, 130–32, 156, 264, 266, 267
concentration camps, 83, 86
Confidential Clerk, The (Eliot), 179
conscientious objectors (COs), 2, 26–31, 135–36, 165, 172
Cookworthy, William, 204, 226
Cornwall, 226
Cornwallis, Charles, 32
Courbet, Gustave, 261–62
Cowee Village, 221, 243, 247
Cracker War, 218
cream ware, 213, 225
Creek, 234, 237, 242, 248–49
Creeley, Robert, 170–71
Crete, 149–50
Crèvecoeur, Michel de, 39, 230
Cryptomeria japonica (Japanese cedar), 38
Cuba, 114, 119, 120
Cunningham, Imogen, 157–58, 157, 158
Cunningham, Merce, 130, 156, 174, 175, 177, 184
curiosity, 224
Daedalus, 149–51
dance, 151–52, 190
Darwin, Charles, 94, 97
Darwin, Erasmus, 212, 215
“Day Begins, A” (Levertov), 55
Defoe, Daniel, 216
de Kooning, Willem, 130, 169
Delaware River, 33
DeLillo, Don, 256, 267
Design Technics, 168
Dessau, 127
De Vorsey, Louis, 239
de Young Museum, 153, 158, 159
Dickinson, Emily, 207, 208, 257
Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names (Beider), 103
Disney Studios, 154
“Donkey, The” (tale), 98–99, 102
Dragging Canoe, 237, 239
Drake, Dave, 206–8
Drake, Harvey, 206
Dreier, Barbara (“Bobby”), 128, 135, 136
Dreier, Mark, 135
Dreier, Ted, 128, 135
Dresden, 124, 200
driveways, 21–22
Dublin, 270
Duché, Andrew, 197–99, 201–5, 214, 216, 220, 226, 239, 243, 246, 252
Duché, Anthony, 197
Duché, Mary, 197
Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste, 205
Dulac, Edmund, 211
Earlham College, 36
earthenware, 213, 226, 235–36
Eccles, Mr., 7
Eckhart, Meister, 87, 136, 174–75
Edgefield Hive, 205, 206
Edgefield Pottery, 205–8
Eliot, T. S., 97, 179
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 167
England, 50, 168, 196, 201, 211–16, 230, 253, 261
Duché in, 203–4
O. T. Benfey in, 35, 74, 77–78, 80, 82, 83, 86–87, 119
pottery in, 51, 63–64, 70, 173, 187
religious conflicts in, 25
Ergo Suits Traveling Group, 177
Essex, botanical garden in, 233
Etruria, 224, 226
Evans, Walker, 24
fairy tales, 77, 96–99, 102, 103–4
Hansel and Gretel, 14, 41, 85, 159–61
Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales (Ziolkowski), 97
Fantin-Latour, Henri, 261
Federation of Women’s Clubs of North Carolina, 48
Feininger, Lyonel, 124
Feistel Dotteres (Philipp Theodorus), 99–100
First Methodist Church (Cameron), 24, 24, 36
fishing, fish, 22, 241–42
Fleischmann, Siegfried, 113–14, 115, 117–22, 124, 127, 132
Fleischmann, Toni Ullstein, 113–15, 117–22, 127
Florida, 227, 231, 234, 239–42, 251
food, 58, 83–84, 143, 160, 161, 176–77, 189
Fothergill, John, 231–34, 242, 253
Fothergill, Samuel, 232
Fox, George, 25
Fox, Nicholas, 50
France, 119, 200, 261
Franklin, Benjamin, 215, 227, 230, 231
Franklin, N.C., 145, 188, 202, 203
Frazer, Sir James, 97
Freud, Sigmund, 12
Friends Executive Committee, 29
Friends Homes, 38–39, 42–43, 79, 254–55, 258
Frost, Robert, 165
Frye, Thomas, 203–4
Fuller, Buckminster, 130, 142, 156
Fuller, Margaret, 167
Galahan, Patrick, 221, 243, 247
Garden, Alexander, 230
Garden of Exile and Immigration, 89–90, 89
Gate Hill Cooperative, 176–77, 179
Gatlinburg, Tenn., 26–31
geometry, 75–76
George III, King of England, 231
Georgia, 198, 201, 202, 204, 205, 227, 228, 231, 234–38
German potters, 49
Germany, 76–83, 88–96
Bauhaus in, 13, 115, 123–28
O. T. Benfey’s departure from, 77, 79, 80, 85–86, 87, 90–91, 92
Germany, East, 88
Germany, Nazi, 73, 80, 87, 91–92, 99, 114, 127, 170
Gestapo, 89, 118, 119–20
Ginsberg, Allen, 146
glass, 125, 126, 127
glazes, 47, 49, 61, 62, 65–66, 213
alkaline ceramic tradition, 204–5
celadon, 205
salt, 49, 70, 178, 180, 197
Göttingen, 93–96, 101–2
Graphic Tectonics, 162
gravemarkers, 63, 70
Great Britain, 93, 204, 224, 233, 237, 264, 267
see also England; London
Great Depression, 22, 24, 27, 268
Great Smoky Mountain Fish Camp & Safaris, 194, 195
Greece, 100, 226
Greece, ancient, 52, 103, 224
Greek mythology, 149–52, 155
Green, Nathaniel, 32
Greensboro, N.C., 38–43, 66, 79, 142, 195, 254
Gregory, Molly, 135
Griffiths, Ralph, 216
Griffiths, Thomas, 187, 216–23, 226, 239, 243, 246, 252
Grimm, Jacob, 41, 94, 96, 98, 159
Grimm, Wilhelm, 41, 94, 96, 98, 159
Gropius, Walter, 127, 137, 138
Guernica, 114
Guernica (Picasso), 161
Guilford College, 25–28, 31–32, 32, 34, 37, 39, 40, 66, 189, 191, 254
Hamada, Shōji, 70, 157, 172
Hamilton, Alexander, 247
Hamilton, Sir William, 214
“Handle, The” (Simmel), 47
handles, 72, 171, 178
Hansel and Gretel, 14, 41, 85, 159–61
happenings, 174–75, 177
Harder, Charles, 171, 172
Harvard University, 137, 138–39, 162
Haverford College, 26, 34, 35, 210–11
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 88, 167
heads, ceramic, 117
Heard, Gerald, 136
Hearn, Lafcadio, 173
Heine, Heinrich, 94, 100–103
Hephaestus, 151–52
Herculaneum, 147, 214
Hesse, Eva, 177
Hewitt, Carol, 64
Hewitt, Mark, 62–72, 68
Heylyn, Edward, 203–4
Hiffernan, Joanna Elizabeth, 261, 262, 264, 267
Hinduism, 96, 98, 103
Hiroshima, bombing of, 86–87
Hitler, Adolf, 73, 80–81, 86, 91, 99, 118, 122, 123
Homage to Delacroix (Fantin-Latour), 261
Homage to the Square paintings, 113, 138
Homer, 151–52
House of Ullstein, 79, 80, 114
Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 257
“I Am Going to Talk About Hope” (Vallejo), 110
Icarus, 150, 151
Ichino pottery, 58, 60
Iliad (Homer), 151–52
Indeterminacy (Cage), 177
India, 94–99, 103
Indiana, 39, 142, 143, 192, 209
see also Richmond
indigo, 266
Industrial Revolution, industrialism, 50, 60, 212
Interaction of Color (Josef Albers), 130, 131
internment camps, 154, 162
Iron Cross, 79, 79
Isherwood, Christopher, 136–37
Italy, 128–29, 168–69, 170, 226
James, Henry, 257
Japan, 28, 38, 51–62, 65, 66, 146, 153, 154, 171–74, 182, 266
Nara incense burner in, 75
pottery of, 52, 56–62, 64, 70–71, 72, 157, 171, 263–64
Japanese Americans, 153–54, 162
Jarrell, Mary, 41
Jarrell, Randall, 14, 40–41
jars, 52, 178, 179
pickle, 58, 61
storage, 61, 62–63, 63, 206–7, 207
jasper ware, 225–26, 253
Jefferson, Thomas, 247
jewelry, 82, 132–35, 133, 140
Jewish Museum (Berlin), 89–90
Jews, 6, 24, 76–77, 79–83, 91, 93, 94, 103, 123, 167
Sephardic, 101, 103
surnames required for, 99, 100
Jews in the History of England, The (Katz), 103
Johnson, Philip, 127–28
Jones, Boyd, 193
Jones, Rufus, 232
Joyce, James, 150
Jüdische Gil Blas, Der (novel), 102–3
jugs, 19, 50, 63, 64, 66
Jugtown, 13, 15, 44–53, 46, 59, 62, 63, 64, 178, 205
kaolin, 48, 49, 195, 198–203, 226, 239
Karnes, Karen, 15, 142, 164–69, 166, 172, 173, 174–83, 178
Weinrib’s collaboration with, 182, 183
Katz, David S., 103
Kekule’s dream, 74
Kerouac, Jack, 55
kilns, 47, 58–59, 62, 69–70, 72, 164, 180–81, 195, 207–8, 212, 213
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 2
Kline, Franz, 169, 184
Kokoschka, Oskar, 124
Kubilai Khan, Mongol ruler of China, 199, 251, 253
“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 14, 188, 251–52, 253
Labyrinth, labyrinths, 147, 149–51, 153, 155, 157, 159–62
Lacan, Jacques, 262
La Cubana (cow), 111
La Cubana (Elia), 111
Lacy, Roger, 198
La Farge, John, 267
Landrum, Abner, 205, 206, 207
Lang, Andrew, 97
Latin, 97–98
Lawrence, Jacob, 130, 155
Leach, Bernard, 60, 64, 70, 171–74
Leach, Janet, 60
Legros, Alphonse, 261
Leopard Moth 2 (Nydorf), 192
Letters from an American Farmer (Crèvecoeur), 39
Levertov, Denise, 55
Lewis, Meriwether, 247–48
Leyland, Frederick, 265
lids, 58, 61, 178–79
Little Carpenter (Attakullakulla), 237, 245, 247
Little Tennessee River, 194, 196, 201, 221, 243
London, 103, 119, 120, 202, 212, 216, 223, 232, 257
O. T. Benfey in, 35, 74, 82, 86–87
Whistler in, 261–65
Louis, Joe, 81
Louvre, 268, 270
Lowell, Mass., 259, 260
Lowell, Robert, 41
MacDonald, Margaret, 257
MacKenzie, Warren, 171, 175
McPherson, Karen, 68–69
Madison, James, 247
Makeig-Jones, Daisy, 211
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 270
Manet, Édouard, 261
Marks, Murray, 264
Martha’s Vineyard, 137
Martínez, Estela, 109
Martínez, Miguel, 109–11
Martínez, Sergio, 109–10
Matisse, Alex, 66
Mayan Letters (Olson), 170–71
meander (Greek key), 107, 147–51, 148, 149, 153, 157, 159
medical experiments, 30–31
Meissen, 200
Mendelssohn, Felix, 94
Mendenhall, Benjamin, 230
Mendenhall, Margery, 230
Mendl, Babs, 80, 87
Mendl, Gerald, 80
Mendl, Wolfgang, 80, 82, 84, 86, 87
mental hospitals, 30
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 149
Metropolitan Museum, 52
Mexico, 107–22, 132, 134, 137, 140, 142
Asawa in, 155, 156–57
author’s visit to, 107–12
Olson in, 170–71
pyramids in, 112–13, 113
Mexico City, 109–10, 115, 116, 120, 121, 146
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 127
Miles, Lewis, 207–8
Miller, Henry, 146
Mingei (“art of the people”) movement, 59–60, 172, 173
Minos, ruler of Crete, 149, 150
Minotaur, 149–51, 159, 161, 162
Mishima, Yukio, 54
Mitla, 108, 139, 139
monogenesis and diffusion model, 97, 102
Monte Albán, 134, 139
Moravians, 49
Morris, William, 50, 64
Morrison-Reeves Library, 5, 10
moths, 192, 192
Mound Builders, 10–11
“Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, The” (tale), 159
murals, 115–16, 121–22, 139, 146, 154–55, 156
Musée d’Orsay, 256, 261, 270
Museum of Modern Art, 137, 176, 177, 268
music, 55, 84, 99, 110, 156, 175, 177, 263
Nadolny, Sten, 88, 90
Nagle, Jeff, 8–9
Native Americans, 10–11, 13, 49, 148, 179–80
in Florida, 239–40, 242
in Mexico, 115, 117, 121–22
see also Cherokee
natural selection, 97
Naxos, 150, 151
Neruda, Pablo, 110
New Garden, 39–41
New Garden Cemetery, 39, 40, 41
New Hampshire, 30, 135–36
New Windsor, 198
New York, N.Y., 22, 52, 124, 128, 167–68, 169, 181–82
Nicholson, Doug, 8–9
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 183
Nishinomiya, 54
Northampton, Mass., 257
North Carolina, 1, 13–14, 15, 19–34, 38–53, 60, 62–72, 187–96, 200–203, 205, 216, 230–31
geological cleavage in, 19
as Jim Crow state, 29
see also specific places
Nydorf, Roy, 188–97, 192
Oglethorpe, General James, 201, 202
O’Leary, John, 267
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 144
Olson, Charles, 170–72, 184
Olympic Games (1936), 80–81, 91
“On Jewelry” (Anni Albers), 133–34
Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 97
Origin of the World, The (Courbet), 261–62
Orinoco (ship), 114, 118–21
Orozco, José, 139, 155
Our Town (Wilder), 26
outhouses, 44, 59
Overhill towns, 243, 244, 252
Ovid, 149–50, 240
Owen, Benjamin, 45–46, 46, 51, 52, 59, 70, 71–72
Owens, Jesse, 91
Owens, Vernon, 64
Panchatantra (Indian folktale collection), 94, 95, 96
Paris, 100, 102, 103, 155, 256, 261, 262, 270
Pasiphaë, 149, 150
Peacock Room, 265
Peale, Charles Wilson, 227
Penland, 178
Penn, William, 230
Persia:
pottery of, 75–76
tales of, 94, 103–4
Philadelphia, Pa., 197, 198, 203, 204, 230
W. Bartram in, 227, 229, 231, 234, 247
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1944), 29
Picasso, Pablo, 161, 266
Piedmont, 1, 13, 19, 31, 46–53, 65, 216
Pinehurst, 31
Pioneer Pottery (Cardew), 64
pitchers, 44–47, 59, 71–72, 269
Pittsboro, N.C., 62–72
plants, 231, 233, 242, 245, 250, 253
pneumonia, 31
Poe, Edgar Allan, 261
poetry, 14, 37–38, 41, 55–56, 98, 184
of Dave Drake, 206–8
of Frost, 165
of Heine, 100–103
Olson’s views on, 170, 171, 184
of Richards, 175
of Toni Ullstein Fleischmann, 122
of Vaughan, 269–70
Poland, 31, 122
Polo, Marco, 199, 202, 216, 251
polygenesis model, 97, 102
Pompeii, 147, 214
porcelain, 13, 14, 187, 197–201, 204, 209, 213, 214–15, 224, 226, 253
Chinese, see China, porcelain of
Whistler’s interest in, 263–64, 265, 267
Porset, Clara, 116, 155
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 150
potteries, pottery, 13, 44–53, 148, 152, 169–83
of Africa, 64, 72
Cherokee, 12, 190–91, 195
of Japan, 52, 56–62, 64, 70–71, 72, 157, 171, 263–64
Jugtown, 13, 15, 44–53, 59, 62, 63, 64, 178
of Karnes, 15, 164–66, 166, 182, 183
of Korea, 60
North Carolina European traditions of, 49
North Carolina-Wedgwood link in, 51
Olson’s views on, 171
Persian, 75–76
Pueblo, 179–80
Simmel’s views on, 47
Wedgwood, 13–14, 51, 64, 187–88, 205, 209–26, 253, 264
see also specific topics
Potter’s Book, A (Leach), 60, 64, 171
Pottersville, 205–8
Pound, Ezra, 170
Priestley, Joseph, 212, 215
princesse du pays de la porcelaine, La (Whistler), 264–65
prison vs. refuge, 149, 154, 162
“Projective Verse” (Olson), 170, 171
psychoanalysis, 12, 85, 87, 97
Pueblo, 179–80
Purchas, Samuel, 252
Purple and Rose (Whistler), 264
pyramids, 112–13, 113
Quakers (Society of Friends), 1–2, 5, 8, 10, 14, 24–27, 32, 33, 35, 87, 135–36, 153, 172, 230, 232, 237, 242, 261
founding of, 25
Japanese Americans and, 154
in New Garden, 39–41
in Philadelphia, 227, 230, 234
pottery and, 50, 52, 197–98, 204, 212, 224, 226
race and, 1, 29–30
Whistler’s mother and, 255–57
Quaker ware (black basalt), 224
Quillian, Bill, 188
racial violence, 2
Raleigh, N.C., 48, 259
Rathburn, Mickey, 68, 107, 158
Rauschenberg, Robert, 13, 130, 175, 184
Red Meander (Anni Albers), 148, 149
Reed, Alex (Bill), 15, 120–21, 132–37, 133, 140, 152
Rhodes, Daniel, 60–61, 175
Rhonda (author’s girlfriend), 5, 7, 9
Rice, John Andrew, 128
Richards, Mary Caroline (M.C.), 166, 175, 176–77
Richmond, Ind., 1–10, 21, 23, 36, 39, 255
explosion in, 2–5, 4
Quaker summer camp in, 25, 26
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 41
Rivera, Diego, 115–17, 116, 121–22, 139, 146, 154, 156
Romantics, 14, 93, 96, 229, 249
Roosevelt, Franklin, 27
Rose Creek, 193, 194
Ross, Shawn, 189, 190
Ruskin, John, 50, 64, 260, 263
Russia, 260
“Ruth” (Wordsworth), 250
Sanctuary (Josef Albers), 162, 163
San Damián Texoloc, 109–11
Sanford, N.C., 19, 20
San Francisco, Calif., 153, 156, 158–60, 162
Sanskrit, 77, 93, 94, 98–99, 101
Santa Anita Racetrack, 154, 162
Savannah, Ga., 198, 239
Savannah River, 197, 198, 201, 205, 220, 234, 237, 242
Schliemann, Heinrich, 12
Schmeling, Max, 81
Schoenberg, Arnold, 156, 177
Schultz, Bart, 95
Search vs. Re-Search (Josef Albers), 147
self-expression, 143, 178, 184
serapes, 107–8, 118
serendipity, 94, 103–4
Serizawa, Kesuke, 266
Sesto Fiorentino, 169
Shapiro, Mark, 164–65, 180, 181, 183
Sheffield, Josiah Wedgwood, 51
Sidgwick, Henry, 95
Simmel, Georg, 47
slavery, slaves, 1, 30, 39, 191, 204, 206–8, 215, 218, 232
Smock, Trent, 7
Smoky Mountain National Forest, 26, 36
Smoky Mountains, 192–93, 202, 239, 243
Snipes, Brad, 32, 33–34
Snipes, Inge, 32, 33, 34
Snipes, Sam, 34
Snipes, Tom, 33, 34–35
snuffbox, 93, 93, 99, 269
Society of Friends, see Quakers
Song of the Lark, The (Cather), 179–80
Sorrow Dance, The (Levertov), 55
South Carolina, 205, 215, 216
spiral (“snail”) periodic table, 74–75, 75
Spode, 51, 63–64
Spode, Josiah, 209
Staffordshire, 51, 70, 187, 212–15, 226
stamp collecting, 73, 269
Stannard, Ann, 165, 178, 179
“starting at the point of zero,” 123
Stephens, William, 198, 201
Stevens, Wallace, 62
stoneware, 197–98, 200, 213, 224, 225–26
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 257
Stuart, John, 219
Stubbs, George, 211, 214
Subterraneans, The (Kerouac), 55
suffering, 108, 110–12
suicide, 35, 41, 54, 137, 151, 208
surnames, 93, 99–102
swimming, 22–23, 33, 36, 91
swings, 19, 22, 23
Sylva, N.C., 189
Symphony in White (“The White Girl”) (Whistler), 267
Tachikui, 56–61
Takarazuka, 56–57
Takeda family, 57, 58, 61
Tamba, 56–62, 65, 71
Tamba Museum, 60–61
Tamba Pottery (Rhodes), 60–61
teacups, 198, 201, 204
Teague, Charles, 51
“Ten O’Clock Lecture” (Whistler), 265, 270
Teotihuacán, 112–13, 113, 115, 117
Theseus, 150, 151
Thomas, Alec, 20–21, 23, 71, 268
Thomas, Alexander Raymond, 4, 13, 15, 19–22, 34
Thomas, Betty, 23
Thomas, Cleaver, 25, 34, 35
Thomas, Debbie, 23
Thomas, John Abner, 19–20
Thomas, John Wesley, 20, 22, 23
Thomas, Juanita, 71
Thomas, Laura (grandmother), 34, 44–47
Thomas, Nadezhda Ivanovna, 25, 34, 35, 42
Thomas, Nancy, 20, 22–23, 34
Thomas, Rachel Elizabeth, see Benfey, Rachel Elizabeth Thomas
Thomas, Sergei, 15, 25–38, 32
Calumet column of, 28–31
cedar in memory of, 38
at CPS Camp 108, 26–31, 36
drowning of, 33–38, 73
family background of, 25
at Westtown, 25–26
Thomas, Sharon, 23
Thomas, Theresa, 23
Thomas, Velma May (Punk), 20, 22–23, 34
Thoreau, Henry David, 167
“Three Princes of Serendipp, The” (Persian tale), 94, 103–4
Tlatilco, 116
Tlaxcala, 109–11
tobacco spit, 47, 59
tortoises, 233–34, 235
“To the Man Who Almost Married My Mother” (C. Benfey), 37–38
Trabuco retreat, 136
Travels (Bartram), 14, 229, 235–41, 243–53
Travels in America and Italy (Chateaubriand), 11
Trayer, Ray, 143
trickery, 150, 160–61
Trotsky, Leon, 111, 115
Tudor, David, 176
Tuke, James Hack, 40
Turner, Robert, 172, 176
Twombly, Cy, 130
Tworkov, Jack, 184
Ullstein, Franz, 79, 114
Ullstein, Hans, 114, 7979
Ullstein, Hermann, 79, 114
Ullstein, Louis, 79, 114
Ullstein, Rudolf, 79, 114
Ullstein family, 79–80, 88
Underground Railroad, 2, 39
Underworld (DeLillo), 256, 267
Unknown Craftsman, The (Yanagi), 60
utopian communities, 167
Valéry, Paul, 69, 70
Vallejo, César, 110
Vanderbilt mansion, 144
Varda, Jean, 155, 157
vases, 52, 53, 147, 180–81, 200, 214, 223–26, 264
Vaughan, Henry, 269–70
Veracruz, 115, 120–21, 132
Vermont, 9, 35, 164–67, 180–81
Vietnam War, 2, 54
Voulkos, Peter, 175
Walden, Sarah, 256
Walden Pond, 167
Walpole, Horace, 94, 103–4, 224
Washington, George, 247
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 97
Watt, James, 212, 215
weaving, 125, 126, 127, 128, 137, 148
Wedgwood, 13–14, 51, 64, 187–88, 205, 209–26, 253, 264
Wedgwood, Josiah, 51, 147, 187, 211–17, 214, 222–26, 232, 233, 252, 253
Wedgwood, Thomas, 252–53
Weimar, 124–27
Weinrib, David, 168–69, 172, 173, 175–78, 181–84, 183
Weinrib, Jo Ann, 181, 182
Welch, Maude, 190–91, 191
West, Benjamin, 227
West Point, 260, 261
Westtown, 25–26, 29
whiskey jugs, 19, 50, 63
Whistler, Anna McNeill, 15, 125, 255–60, 255, 262–70, 268
Whistler, George Washington, 259, 260
Whistler, James McNeill, 15, 255–70, 255
Whistler, William, 260, 266
White, T. Pudge, 31
white clay, 12–14, 66, 67, 145, 191, 193–205, 269
china stone, 199
kaolin, 48, 49, 195, 198–203, 226, 239
see also Cherokee clay
White Paintings, 175, 184
Whitewater River, 1, 2, 5, 8, 10
Wihl, Ludwig, 101
Wildenhain, Marguerite, 171, 172
Wilder, Thornton, 26
Williams, Paul, 172, 176
Williams, Vera, 176
Wilmington, N.C., 259, 262, 268–69
Wilson, Albert, 210
Window Shop, 83–84, 102
wire baskets, 156–59, 157
Woolf, Virginia, ix
Woolman, John, 29
Wordsworth, William, 14, 93, 229, 250, 252
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 27, 165
World War II, 24–25, 41, 60, 73, 82, 119, 122
bombing in, 86–87, 89, 154
conscientious objectors in, 27–31, 165, 172
Yanagi, Sōetsu, 59–60, 172, 174
Yeats, John Butler, 270
Yeats, William Butler, 270
Ziolkowski, Jan, 97–99, 102