Ebook: Arts & crafts movement
Author: Oscar Lovell Triggs.
- Series: Art of century collection.
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Parkstone International
- City: New York
- Language: English
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"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 Read more...
Ruskin's contribution to the doctrine of work --
Morris and his plea for an industrial commonwealth --
Ashbee and the reconstructed workshop --The development of industrial consciousness --
Major artists (John Ruskin, Philip Speakman Webb, William Morris, William Friend De Morgan, Walter Crane, Charles Robert Ashbee).