Charles Robert Ashbee
Author : Richard Stephen Sennott
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Arts and crafts movement
ISBN :
Pioneers of Modern Craft
Author : Margot Coatts
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780719050596
Book Description
Pioneers of modern craft profiles key figures in the history of contemporary twentieth-century crafts. It focuses on the lives and times of prominent individuals who were (or became) influential throughout the pre- and post-war periods in Britain, such as David Pye, Gerald Benney, Gerda Flockinger, Edward Barnsley and William Staite Murray.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1277 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2006-11-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0195189485
Book Description
The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western culture. With over 1,000 entries, as well as hundreds drawn from the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, this topical collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the history, practice, and mechanics of the decorative arts. Accompanied by almost 100 color and more than 500 black and white illustrations, the 1,290 pages of this title include hundreds of entries on artists and craftsmen, the qualities and historic uses of materials, as well as concise definitions on art forms and style. Explore the works of Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and the Wiener Wekstatte, or delve into the history of Navajo blankets and wing chairs in thousands of entries on artists, craftsmen, designers, workshops, and decorative art forms.
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Book Description
A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses, Public and Private, in Great Britain and Ireland
Author : Geoffrey Stewart Tomkinson
Publisher :
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Book Description
The Simple Life
Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 057132021X
Book Description
The Simple Life (1981) was Fiona MacCarthy's first book, written while she was the Guardian's design correspondent (and before her acclaimed lives of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones.) It tells of a venturesome effort to enact an Edwardian Utopia in a small town in the Cotswolds. The leader of this endeavour was progressive-minded architect Charles Robert Ashbee, who in 1888 founded the Guild of Handicraft in Whitechapel, specialising in metalworking, jewellery and furniture and informed by the desire to improve society. In 1902 Ashbee and his East London comrades removed the Guild to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, hoping to construct a socialistic rural idyll. MacCarthy explores the impact of the experiment on the lives of the group and on the little town they occupied - tracing the Guild's fortunes and misfortunes, hilarious and grave, and the many fellow idealists and artists who were involved (among them William Morris, Roger Fry, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb.)
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1390 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 1913
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Book Description
Book-prices Current
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
ISBN :
Book Description
Catalogue
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN :
Book Description
Art Nouveau
Author : Gabriel P. Weisberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113502314X
Book Description
First published in 1998. Design reform in the fields of architecture and the decorative or applied arts became objectified through writings published during the period of 1885 to 1910. This investigation includes, but is not limited to, Art Nouveau in France and Belgium, and the arts and crafts movement in England and the United States. Even though the similar processes of creativity and shared goals of Art Nouveau and the arts and crafts movement have long been recognized, attempts to explore their origins and their points of interrelation with the broader scope of art history have been largely unsuccessful—until now.
