The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain
Author: Mary Greensted
Publisher: Shire Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780747807827

Mary Greensted tells the story of the birth and development of the Arts and Craft movement in Britain with the help of numerous illustrations showing the buildings, furniture, metalwork, and the people who influenced it. The movement was concerned with the revival of traditional crafts, and a return to the vernacular, and it had socialist ideals at its heart. This movement, which flourished in the early twentieth century, has not only bequeathed us with a wealth of fine objects and buildings, but also a way of thinking about life and craft that continues to influence many today. Contains information on dozens of designers, artists, architects and thinkers, including: William Morris CFA Voysey Charles Rennie Mackintosh AH Mackmurdo CR Ashbee Ernest Gimson

The Rise of Everyday Design

The Rise of Everyday Design
Author: Monica Penick
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0300234988

This fresh look at the Arts and Crafts Movement charts its origins in reformist ideals, its engagement with commercial culture, and its ultimate place in everyday households.

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.

The Arts & Crafts Movement

The Arts & Crafts Movement
Author: Rosalind P. Blakesley
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009-03-07
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780714849676

A comprehensive survey of the popular Arts and Crafts Movement.

Victorian Radicals

Victorian Radicals
Author: Martin Ellis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781885444479

Drawn from Birmingham Museums Trust's incomparable collection of Victorian art and design, this exhibition will explore how three generations of young, rebellious artists and designers, such as Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, revolutionized the visual arts in Britain, engaging with and challenging the new industrial world around them.

The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman

The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman
Author: Judith B. Tankard
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Illustrated with original photographs of Shipman's superb gardens - many by photographer Mattie Edwards Hewitt which have never been previously published - and new photographs by Carol Betsch which were specially commissioned for this volume, the book documents in fascinating detail the life and work of one of America's most important and influential garden designers.

William Morris

William Morris
Author: Charles Harvey
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1991
Genre: Artisans
ISBN: 9780719024191

The many achievements of William Morris are described in this volume, which explores his multifaceted career as a political writer and activist, an artist and designer, a man of letters, and a successful businessman.

Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement

Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Author: Zoe Thomas
Publisher: Gender in History
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781526160270

Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and international spheres of influence.

International Arts and Crafts

International Arts and Crafts
Author: Karen Livingstone
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Arts and crafts movement
ISBN: 9781851774456

Now in paperback, this lavishly illustrated and extensively researched book is a major contribution to a wider understanding of Arts and Crafts and an invaluable visual record of an ever-popular era of design. Leading scholars explore the varied characteristics of the regional, national and international manifestations of Arts and Crafts, looking at the work of many of the movement's leading designers. Additional material on photography, architecture and gardens, and the inclusion of painting and sculpture as integral to the movement, as well as the focus on its later emergence in Japan, all contribute to enriching our understanding and appreciation of Arts and Crafts.