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The arts and crafts movement / Rosalind P. Blakesley.

By: Blakesley, Rosalind P. (Rosalind Polly) [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Phaidon, 2006Description: 272 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits. ; 30 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780714849676 (paperback) ; 0714849677 .Subject(s): Arts and crafts movement | Arts and crafts movement -- History | Industrial arts | Decorative artsDDC classification: 745.409034
Contents:
Introduction -- Escaping the 'inexhaustible mines of bad taste' -- First explorations: William Morris and his circle -- Craft and comradeship in the metropolis -- Expansion across the British Isles -- 'A cry of delight': Austria, Germany and the Low Countries -- A nationalist manifesto: Hungary and Poland -- Artisans and aristocrats: the Russian equation -- Nordic identities: Scandinavia and Finland -- Across the Atlantic: transformations in the United States.
Summary: "Charts the course of the movement in all media, including painting, craft and architecture and examines the theory and philosophy behind a variety of seminal pieces."-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending 745.409034 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00158587
General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 745.409034 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00192039
Reference MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Reference 745.409034 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 00192041
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Dating from the 1850s to the First World War, the Arts and Crafts Movement was an international phenomenon of enormous scope and influence. It encompassed everything from architecture to town planning, metalwork and embroidery, in places as diverse as California and Budapest. Born of thinkers and practitioners in Victorian England its ideological currents reflect the era's most pressing social, political and artistic concerns.

Early British Arts and Crafts practitioners campaigned for a revival of old craft techniques, for the elevation of the applied arts and for honesty in design. These aims were quickly picked up and developed across Europe and the United States, with many national variants soon emerging. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated introduction to the subject, Rosalind Blakesley explores the common ideas that give cohesion to this wide and stylistically varied movement.

Includes chronology and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-261).

Introduction -- Escaping the 'inexhaustible mines of bad taste' -- First explorations: William Morris and his circle -- Craft and comradeship in the metropolis -- Expansion across the British Isles -- 'A cry of delight': Austria, Germany and the Low Countries -- A nationalist manifesto: Hungary and Poland -- Artisans and aristocrats: the Russian equation -- Nordic identities: Scandinavia and Finland -- Across the Atlantic: transformations in the United States.

"Charts the course of the movement in all media, including painting, craft and architecture and examines the theory and philosophy behind a variety of seminal pieces."-- Provided by publisher.

UCC Fund.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Rosalind P Blakesley is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has written widely on the Arts and Crafts Movement, and on Russian art.