Arts and crafts objects /
Imogen Hart.
- Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- xiv, 246 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm
- Studies in design .
- Studies in design. .
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.
Arts and crafts movement--History--Great Britain--19th century. Arts and crafts movement--History--Great Britain--20th century. Decoration and ornament--History--Great Britain--19th century. Decoration and ornament--History--Great Britain--20th century.