The Arts and Crafts Movement
The Arts and Crafts Movement, by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, is a comprehensive and detailed look at the history and development of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The book covers the origins of the movement, its key figures, its influence on the decorative arts, and its impact on the modern world. It also examines the philosophy behind the movement, its relationship to the Industrial Revolution, and its relevance to contemporary society. The book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history and development of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
By T.J. Cobden-Sanderson · First published 1905 · Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Biography · 11,243 words
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The Movement, passing under the name of 'Arts and Crafts,' admits of many definitions. It may be associated with the movement of ideas, characteristic of the close of the last century, and be defined to be an effort to bring it under the influence of art as the supreme mode in which human activity of all kinds expresses itself at its highest and best; in which case the so-called 'Arts and Crafts Exhibitions' would be but a symbolic presentment of a whole by a part, itself incapable of presentment: or it may be associated with the revival, by a few artists, of hand-craft as opposed to machine-craft, and be defined to be the insistence on the worth of man's hand, a unique tool in danger of being lost in the substitution for it of highly organized and intricate machinery, or of emotional as distinguished from merely skilled and technical labour: or again, it may be defined to be both the one and the other, and to have a wider scope than either; as for example, it may be defined to constitute a movement to bring all the activities of the human spirit under the influence of one idea, the idea that life is creation, and should be creative in modes of art, & that this creation should extend to all the ideas of science and of social organization, to all the ideas and habits begotten of a grandiose and consciously conceived procession of humanity, out of nothing and nowhere, into everything and everywhere, as well as to the merely instrumental occupations thereof at any particular moment.
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- Work type: Essay
- Author: T.J. Cobden-Sanderson
- Date: 1905 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Non-Fiction, History, Biography, Art, Cultural Studies
- Length: 11,243 words
- Structure: 1 section, 77 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Difficult (College Level)
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- Non-Fiction — The Arts and Crafts Movement is a non-fiction book that provides an overview of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- History — The book provides an in-depth look at the history of the Arts and Crafts Movement, including its origins, development, and impact on the world.
- Biography — The book includes biographical information about the key figures of the Arts and Crafts Movement, such as William Morris and John Ruskin.
- Art — The book provides an overview of the art and design of the Arts and Crafts Movement, including its influence on the visual arts.
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