Arts and Crafts Objects - Brossura

Hart, Imogen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0719079721 ISBN 13: 9780719079726

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

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 centre 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.

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Imogen Hart is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Yale Center for British Art


Imogen Hart is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Yale Center for British Art

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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 centre 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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719079721
• ISBN 13: 9780719079726
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 246
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile