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Arts and crafts objects / Imogen Hart.

By: Hart, Imogen [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Studies in design: Publisher: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: xiv, 246 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780719079719 (hardback); 0719079713 (hardback); 0719079721 (paperback); 9780719079726 (paperback).Subject(s): Arts and crafts movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Arts and crafts movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Decoration and ornament -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Decoration and ornament -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 745.4094109034 Summary: 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\'. -- Back cover.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index.

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\'. -- Back cover.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of plates
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Arts and Crafts precursors
  • 2 The homes of William Morris
  • 3 Objects at Morris & Co.
  • 4 The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
  • 5 The Arts and Crafts Museum at the Manchester School of Art
  • Conclusion
  • Select bibliography
  • Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Hart (Yale Center for British Art) decisively deepens readers' understanding of the Arts and Crafts movement in England with this engaging study. In an introduction that examines the very meaning of the terms "arts," "crafts," and "movement" in the light of such qualifiers as "aestheticism," "modernism," "gender," and "beauty," Hart braces the reader for five chapters and a conclusion that trace a history that commences with the precursors of the movement, dwells at length on William Morris's homes and places of business through a close reading of vintage interior photographs, turns to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society with which Morris was involved, and concludes with the unique relationship of the Arts and Crafts Museum at the Manchester Municipal School of Art to the events, ideals, and personalities developed in those preceding chapters. Hart skillfully contextualizes arts and crafts objects though a careful analysis of the critical discourses of the day and with particular attention to the outsized personality of William Morris. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. J. Quinan University at Buffalo, SUNY

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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

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