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Terms and conditions applyThe Arts and Crafts Movement
Rosalind P. Blakesley
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Format: Book
Pages: 272
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Date Published: Mar 2009
Stock Code: 67580
Binding: Paperback
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In this book Rosalind Blakesley explores the common ideas that give cohesion to a movement of otherwise bewildering breadth and stylistic heterogeneity. At the origins of the movement was a reaction against industrialisation, the long-standing division between traditional crafts and Fine Art and the over-elaborate ornamentation which disguised an object or building's true 'function'.
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, ideas that were picked up and developed across Europe and the United States, with national variants quickly emerging. Germany, for example, recognised the potential of industrial techniques and experimented with standardisation in design; in Finland, then annexed to Russia, Arts and Crafts was allied to the search for self-expression and a national style in art.
Examining both acknowledged Arts and Crafts centres and lesser-known communities, Rosalind Blakesley concludes her authoritative and accessible survey with an evaluation of the Movement's significance in the twenty-first century.
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