In this groundbreaking reassessment of the conventional understanding of a cohesive "Arts and Crafts" movement in Britain, Imogen Hart argues that a sophisticated mode of looking at decorative art developed in England during the second half of the nineteenth century. Bringing to light a significant number of little-known visual and textual sources, Arts and Crafts Objects insists that the history of British design between the 1830s and the 1910s is more complex and interwoven than concepts of clearly differentiated movements allow for. Reinvesting the objects with the original importance ascribed to them by their makers and users, this book places furniture, metalwork, tiles, vases, chintzes, carpets, and wallpaper at the center of a rigorous reassessment of the concept of "Arts and Crafts." The book offers radical new interpretations of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and the homes of William Morris, alongside illuminating analyses of less familiar, but equally rich, contexts.
Recenzijas
In Hart's insightful study, with its microscopic, considered analysis of the aims and design of Morris and Crane, she provides us with a 'modus operandi' with which to reconsider the field of British craft. -- .
List of plates
viii
List of figures
ix
Acknowledgements
xiii
List of abbreviations
xv
Introduction
1
(30)
1 Arts and Crafts precursors
31
(36)
2 The homes of William Morris
67
(45)
3 Objects at Morris & Co
112
(36)
4 The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
148
(33)
5 The Arts and Crafts Museum at the Manchester Municipal School of Art
181
(33)
Conclusion
214
(11)
Select bibliography
225
(15)
Index
240
Imogen Hart is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Yale Center for British Art -- .
