GMOA director William U. Eiland is giving a talk on Lamar Dodd (image above) at 7 p.m. this evening at the Hills & Dales Estate, the Callaway family home in LaGrange, Ga., preceded by a reception at 6:30 p.m. In the lecture, "Essential Beauty: Lamar Dodd's Life and Times," Eiland will discuss Lamar Dodd's extraordinary career in the context of the major 20th-century art movements in America. Artist, advocate, administrator and teacher, Lamar Dodd defined a current of art activisim in the last century that existed more virulently outside the South. His career parallels the growth of the University of Georgia and the emergence of the region in the fine as well as decorative arts. Of note, of course, and a significant part of the story, will be Lamar Dodd's refusal to recognize that difference between Georgia's beaux-arts traditions and its material culture. Dodd strove to find the essential beauty in all things. The Newton-Coweta County Times-Herald has a nice article on the lecture.
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