Arts & Crafts Ideals
Simplicity, good taste, sincerity, usefulness, education, and beauty -- these are some of the ideals of the Arts & Crafts movement. Established well over a century ago, the movement continues to grow... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0879059311
ISBN13:9780879059316
Release Date:August 1999
Publisher:Gibbs Smith Publishers
Length:64 Pages
Weight:0.46 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.3" x 6.3"
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Arts and Crafts philosophy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
The book "Arts and Crafts Ideals" by Bruce Smith, Yoshiko Yamamoto, Gail Ynque is for those who like the arts and crafts style and would like to know how it was started. The book takes a philosophical approach to the movement by having each of its seven chapters follow a philosophy discipline. For example chapter 2 is titled design, which could be esthetics and chapter 5 is education or epistomology.The authers have taken quotes from famous sources about the arts and crafts movement which seem to be representative of the ideals and feelings the craftspeople had toward their work. The movements common thread was anti industrialation and protect the hand craft system. Manufacturing was seen as a grinding down of the individual. The process produced cheap copies of somthing that was original. After reading this book you can judge for yourself if they were right. An arguement could be made for the same thing today. I rate this book a 4 only because of its scope. I am also a shop teacher that likes history.
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