Art and the national dream : the search for vernacular expression in turn-of-the-century design /
edited by Nicola Gordon Bowe.
- 213 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : national romanticism : vernacular expression in turn-of-the-century design / Nicola Gordon Bowe -- Recreating a tradition : Christopher Whall (1849-1924) and the arts & crafts renascence of English stained glass / Peter Cormack -- Vernacular expression or Western style? : Josiah Conder and the beginning of modern architectural design in Japan / Toshio Watanabe -- The vernacular in America, 1890-1920 : ideology and design / Wendy Kaplan -- The search for a northwest vernacular : Kirtland Cutter and the rustic picturesque 1888-1920 / Henry Matthews -- Reviving folk art in Russia : the Moscow Zemstvo and the kustar art industries / Wendy Salmond -- Searching for a national style in Polish architecture at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century / Malgorzata Omilanowska -- Romantic elements in Hungarian art nouveau / Katalin Geller. Vernacularism and its special characteristics in Hungarian art / Katalin Keseru -- What is vernacular? or, the search for the "mother-tongue of forms" / Janos Gerle -- Norwegian craft theory and national revival in the 1890s / Patricia G. Berman -- How nationalism was expressed in Finnish architecture at the turn of the last century / Ritva Wäre -- A contextual introduction to romantic nationalism and vernacular expression in the Irish arts and crafts movement, c.1886-1925 / Nicola Gordon Bowe.
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Design--History--19th century. Design--History--20th century Nationalism and architecture. Vernacular architecture--History--19th century. Vernacular architecture--History--20th century. Romanticism in art