Arts and Crafts Pioneers
«'This is fascinating cultural history that charts a difficult set of artistic relationships whilst expertly analysing their incredibly varied output.' – The Victorian magazine»
Surveying for the first time the
Century Guild of Artists and its influential periodical, the Century
Guild Hobby Horse, this original publication asserts the significance of the Guild in the development of the Arts and Crafts movement and its modernist successors.
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Century Guild of Artists and its influential periodical, the Century
Guild Hobby Horse, this original publication asserts the significance of the Guild in the development of the Arts and Crafts movement and its modernist successors.
The founders of the Century Guild - architect Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and his 18-year-old
assistant Herbert Percy Horne (afterwards joined by the artist and poet Selwyn
Image) - were driven by the ambition to
answer John Ruskin's radical call to regenerate art and society. Motivated by the concept of 'the Unity of Art', the Guild embraced a spectrum of arts which included architecture, painting,
sculpture, metalwork, textiles and stained glass. It also reached out to music
and literature, aiming to educate its public in practical form.
Skilfully weaving chronology with the impressive artistic achievements of the collective, the authors also draw out the lively personalities of each of the protagonists and their wider circle. For anyone fascinated by the Arts and Crafts movement, this is essential reading.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781848224513
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 27 x 23 cm
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«'This is fascinating cultural history that charts a difficult set of artistic relationships whilst expertly analysing their incredibly varied output.' – The Victorian magazine»
«'Both the book and exhibition under review, each in their own ways exemplary endeavours, serve to shed light on what has hitherto been seen as something of a digression in the narrative of late nineteenth century British art but, on closer inspection, proves to have been a significant creative alliance of lasting importance.' – Pre-Raphaelite Review»