The Crafts In Britain Twentieth Century Tanya Harrod Yale University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

From Ceramics To Silversmithing Calligraphy Textiles Hot Glass Bookbinding Crafts Have Played A Rich And Complex Role In The Social Cultural Artistic History Of Twentieth-Century Britain This All-Encompassing Book Is First Survey Full Range Individual Craft Disciplines Key Practitioners Pre-World War I Years Arts Movement 1990S Tanya Harrod Shows How Emerged Response Generalized Anxiety About Production Commodification Consumption Objects Highly Industrialized Society Caught Between More Powerful Fine Art Architecture Design For Industry Defined Redefined Themselves Throughout Century Begins With Revival Early 1900S Tracing Legacy John Ruskin William Morris Author Then Discusses Was Forced Reexamine Its Aims During Great Development Closely Connected Modernism Wars World Ii Idea Handmade Often Form Vernacular Discovered Remote Pockets England Significant Part Propagandizing National Culture Worth Defending Also Explores Postwar Beginnings Countercultural Workshop-Based Led By Bernard Leach Continuing Redefinition As Government-Funded Council Pushed Them Toward Government Attempted 1980S Recast Exemplars Enterprise Describes Increasingly Blurred Division Mass At Conclusion Along Historians Educators Artists Craftspersons Collectors Readers An Interest British Will Find Much Delight Fascinate Accompanies Exhibition “The Pleasures Peace: 1940S 1960S ” That Open Sainsbury Centre University East Anglia Spring 1999 Published Association Bard Graduate Center Studies Decorative Σελίδες: 496 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0311 Διαστάσεις: 24 1X24 1Cm