The Arts and Crafts Movement
-The Arts and Crafts Movement was one of the most
influential, profound and far-reaching design movements of modern times.
-Its flourished between 1880 and 1910, especially in the
second half of that period,[1] continuing
its influence until the 1930s.
-It grew out of a concern for the effects of
industrialisation: on design, on traditional skills and on the lives of
ordinary people.
-The
movement developed first and most fully in the British Isles.
season ticket for The Arts
& Crafts Exhibition Society, by Walter Crane
- but spread across the British Empire and to the rest of
Europe and North America.
-The Arts and Crafts Movement revived traditional
artistic craftsmanship with themes of simplicity, honesty, function, harmony,
nature and social reform.
-The movement promoted moral and social health through
quality of architecture and design executed by skilled creative workers, and
was a revolt against the poor quality of industrialized mass production.
-It advocated economic and social reform and has been
said to be essentially anti-industrial.
-In Britain the disastrous effects of industrial
manufacture and unregulated trade had been recognised since about 1840, but it
was not until the 1860s and 1870s that architects, designers and artists began
to pioneer new approaches to design and the decorative arts.
-The
two most influential figures were the theorist and critic John Ruskin and the
designer, writer and activist William Morris.
-Ruskin
examined the relationship between art, society and labour.
-Morris
put Ruskin's philosophies into practice, placing great value on work, the joy
of craftsmanship and the natural beauty of materials.
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