Janet Ashbee: Love, Marriage, and the Arts & Crafts Movement: Love, Marriage, and the Arts and Crafts Movement - Rilegato

Ashbee, Felicity

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ISBN 10: 0815607318 ISBN 13: 9780815607311

Casa editrice: Syrcause University Press, 2002

Riassunto

Much has been written about C.R. Ashbee, a key figure in the British Arts and Crafts movement in the late 19th century, but little about his wife, Janet. In this volume, Felicity Ashbee presents the first biography devoted solely to her mother's life. Among the themes touched upon are Janet's qualities and the ways in which they complemented her husband's work, the challenges she faced as the wife of an acknowledged homosexual, her three-year platonic love affair with a family friend, her public life, and important social issues of her time. Illustrated with eight color plates and b&w photographs. Ashbee has written scholarly articles on art history and 19th and 20th century material culture. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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C.R. Ashbee was, some would say, the key man in the British Arts and Crafts movement during the early decades of the 20th century. Regarded as heir to William Morris in political belief and design reform, Ashbee (and his Guild of Handicraft) gained international fame in his own time and remains a legend today. While much has been written about him, little has been said of his wife. Now Felicity Ashbee breaks the silence in a book about her mother. The book depicts Janet Ashbee as a gifted woman of emotional warmth, strength and unconventionality, all of which enhanced her husband's work. An accomplished writer and thinker in her own right, Janet Ashbee's life revolved around great historic issues that still resonate to this day: the socially conscious Arts and Crafts movement, the role of women in contemporary affairs, and embattled ethnic relationships in the Middle East - not to mention marriage and sexual orientation, predicated upon her husband's vibrant and well-known homosexuality.

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• Editore: Syrcause University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0815607318
• ISBN 13: 9780815607311
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 245