It may be associated with the movement of ideas, characteristic of the close of the last century, and be defined to be an effort to bring it under the influence of art as the supreme mode in which human activity of all kinds expresses itself at its highest and best; in which case the so called ‘Arts and Crafts Exhibitions’ would be but a symbolic presentment of a whole by a part, itself…
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Author : Gillian Naylor
Genre : Aesthetic movement (Art).
Summary : The Arts and Crafts Movement was concerned with the ethics as much as with the aesthetics of design. Its supporters were inspired by the idealism of Ruskin and Morris to campaign for a world that was fit to live in; in such a world men would enjoy the freedom to be creative, and this freedom would be expressed, in the words of William Morris, in the development of "a decorative, noble, popular art"--design by the people for the people.This then was the ideal, and in their attempts to achieve it, British designers so revitalized the arts of architecture and design that their efforts were admired and emulated throughout Europe and in America. A program that implied social and moral as well as aesthetic reform, however, had its ambiguities. This book, which is concerned with Arts and Crafts design and theory, discusses these ambiguities. The author shows how Arts and Crafts attitudes were conditioned, on the one hand by efforts of such reformers as Sir Henry Cole to create better standards for manufactured goods and on the other by Ruskinian loathing for machinery. The development of the idea that a corrupt society can never achieve anything of value in art, architecture, and design is traced through the work and theory of Pugin, Ruskin, and Morris. The significance and influence of such organizations as the Century Guild, the Art-Workers' Guild, the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, and the Guild of Handicraft is also discussed, as is the work of individual designers, including Gimson, De Morgan, the Martin Brothers, Benson, and Crane.The Arts and Crafts theory, as well as contributing to the development of Art Nouveau, also helped to form the dogma of the Modern Movement; and the conviction that ethics and aesthetics were in some way inseparable was to influence design theory at least until the 1950s.
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Author : Oscar Lovell Triggs
Genre : Art
Summary : “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.
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Author : Steven Adams
Genre : Arts and crafts movement
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Author : Gillian Naylor
Genre : Aesthetic movement (Art)
Summary : Pugin - Ruskin - William Morris - St George's Guild - C.R. Ashbee - Art Workers' Guild - Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Author : Rosalind P. Blakesley
Genre : Design
Summary : A comprehensive survey of the popular Arts and Crafts Movement.
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Author : Monica Penick
Genre : Design
Summary : 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.
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Author : T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
Genre : Fiction
Summary : This book is about the Arts and Crafts Movement in Great Britain. Initially, the movement began in protest to the notion, largely perpetrated by the Royal Society of Art, that art exhibitions could include only paintings, sculpture and architecture. Many artisans argued for a wider definition to include furniture, ornaments, glassware and so on.