Gustave Stickley's Craftsman Farms
Subtitle: The Quest for an Arts and Crafts Utopia
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780815606895
Subjects: Decorative arts & crafts; History of specific subjects; Stickley, Gustav,; Log buildings; Criticism; Philosophy Of Art; Specific Residential Buildings Architecture; Parsippany; Art & Art Instruction; Homes and haunts; Architecture; USA; Domestic; American - General; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); New Jersey; 1858-1942; Arts and crafts movement; Craftsman Farms (Parsippany, N; Furniture, Mission
Description: "Illustrated with over a hundred archival photographs, this book provides a comprehensive look at Craftsman Farms, one of the critical utopian experiments of the fin-de-siecle period in America.".

"From 1911 to 1917 Craftsman Farms - now a major museum - was the home of Gustav Stickley, one of the central figures in the American Arts and Crafts Movement. This book unravels the rich and sometimes contradictory ideas that informed not only Stickley but many of the artists and literary figures of the progressive era in America.".

"The year 1900 was the fulcrum in a long arc of utopian ideals dating back to Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and William Morris in England, a movement that would eventually lead up to the art communes of the Guild of Handicraft, Woodstock, and the MacDowell colony.

Craftsman Farms was at the center of a large group of American experiments in "living the artistic life." With this book, Mark Alan Hewitt provides a foil for a critical examination of the theories that guided many architects, artists, and craft artisans at the turn of the last century."--BOOK JACKET.