The Arts & Crafts Movement

The Arts & Crafts Movement
Author: Oscar Lovell Triggs
Publisher: Parkstone International
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2023-12-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1783103833

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in England. Founded by John Ruskin, then put into practice by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts movement promoted revolutionary ideas in Victorian England. In the middle of the “soulless” Industrial Era, when objects were standardised, the Arts & Crafts movement proposed a return to the aesthetic at the core of production. The work of artisans and meticulous design thus became the heart of this new ideology, which influenced styles throughout the world, translating the essential ideas of Arts & Crafts into design, architecture and painting.

Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors
Author: Morwenna Ludlow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192588648

Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as craft. The ancient concept of craft (ars, techne) spans 'high' or 'fine' art and practical or applied arts. It unites the beautiful and the useful. It includes both skills or practices (like medicine and music) and productive arts like painting, sculpting and the composition of texts. By using craft as a guiding concept for understanding fourth Christian authorship, this book recovers a sense of them engaged in a shared practice which is both beautiful and theologically useful, which shapes souls but which is also engaged in the production of texts. It focuses on Greek writers, especially the Cappadocians (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nysa) and John Chrysostom, all of whom were trained in rhetoric. Through a detailed examination of their use of two particular literary techniques—ekphrasis and prosōpopoeia—it shows how they adapt and experiment with them, in order to make theological arguments and in order to evoke a response from their readership.

Interwar

Interwar
Author: Gavin Stamp
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2024-03-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 180081741X

British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo - but the reality was far more diverse. As the modernists came of age and the traditionalists began to decline, there arose a rich variety of styles and tastes in Britain and across the empire, a variety that reflected the restless zeitgeist of the years before the Second World War. At the time of his death in 2017, Gavin Stamp, one of Britain's leading architectural critics, was at work on a deeply considered account of British architecture in the interwar period, correcting what he saw as the skewed view of earlier historians who were unable to see past modernism. Beginning with a survey of the modern movement after the armistice, Interwar untangles the threads that link lesser-known movements like the Egyptian revival with the enduring popularity of the Tudorbethan, to chronicle one of Britain's most dynamic architectural periods. The result is more than an architectural history - it is the portrait of a changing nation. As an account of the period that still shapes much of Britain's towns and cities, Gavin Stamp's final work is the definitive history of British architecture between the Great War and the Blitz.

Structure and Style

Structure and Style
Author: Michael Stratton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1997
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780419217404

This book looks at approaches to appraising and conserving mainstream architecture of the 20th century - commercial buildings, industrial buildings and housing.

Encyclopedia of Interior Design

Encyclopedia of Interior Design
Author: Joanna Banham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1469
Release: 1997-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136787585

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries

A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Author: Bonnie English
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0857851365

This new edition of a bestselling textbook is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in 20th century fashion history. Accessibly written and well illustrated, the book outlines the social and cultural history of fashion thematically, and contains a wide range of global case studies on key designers, styles, movements and events. The new edition has been revised and expanded: there are new sections on eco-fashion, fashion and the museum, major changes in the fashion market in the 21st century (including the impact of new media and retailing networks), new technologies, fashion weeks, the rise of asian fashion centers and more. There are twice as many illustrations. In its second edition, A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries is the ideal introductory text for all students of fashion.

Style and Society

Style and Society
Author: Robert Macleod
Publisher: London : RIBA
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1971
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome

Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome
Author: John Onians
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300075335

An inquiry into the foundations of European culture. The account ranges from the Greek Dark Ages to the Christianisation of Rome, revealing how the experience of a constantly changing physical environment influenced the inhabitants of Ancient Greece and Rome.

The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century

The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century
Author: Charles John Ffoulkes
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century" by Charles John Ffoulkes. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.