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ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT

c. 1880 - 1910

ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT

c. 1880 - 1910
Began in Britain, spread to America

Rejected:
The eclectic historicism and excessive
ornamentation of earlier and concurrent
Victorian styles

The cold, impersonal aesthetics brought


on by the Industrial Revolution

William Morris,
Artichoke Wallpaper, c1897

ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT

c. 1880 - 1910

Embraced:
A closer relationship between designer,
maker, and object

The integration of art into life

Objects and furniture that were smaller,


less ornamented, more hand-crafted

William Morris,
Artichoke Wallpaper, c1897

John Ruskin
The leading writer
on art and
design in Britain.

Sketches and watercolor


by Ruskin

Inspired by Pugin,
Ruskin advocated the design
of the past, but was not
married to Gothic Style
or any one style.

Socialism
Ruskin
Believed that machines
and factory work limited
human happiness
Advocated finding joy in
work through a closer
relationship with craft

William Morris
Founder of the
Arts and Crafts Movement

Artisanal
production
improved
laborers
conditions
and edified
society

William Morris.
How I Became a Socialist,
London: Twentieth Century Press, 1896.

"... what I mean by Socialism is


a condition of society ... in which all men
would be living in equality of condition,
and would manage their affairs unwastefully,
and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realization at last of the meaning of the word COMMONWEALTH."

Walter Crane,
trademark
for
Walter
Chiswick
Press, 1898

10-13

10-17

Frontispiece for William Morriss Kelmscott Press


edition of the writings of John Ruskin, c.1891.

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