Title: The arts and crafts movement /
Authors: Blakesley, Rosalind P.
Publisher: Phaidon,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Arts and crafts movement History.; Artes decorativas.
Abstract: Dating from the 1850s to the First World War, the Arts and Crafts Movement was an international phenomenon of enormous scope and influence. It covered everything from architecture to town planning, metalwork and embroidery. This fully illustrated book looks at the wide and varied history of the Movement.
Contents: 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.