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The Craftsman and the Critic: Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts-Era Boston
Beverly K. Brandt
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Description for The Craftsman and the Critic: Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts-Era Boston
Hardcover. Explores the interaction of craft workers and critics as they collaborated to improve the quality of the living and working environment in Boston and across the United States. This book examines topics such as the evolution of the profession of design criticism in the nineteenth century, and Boston in the 'Gilded Age' as a center for reform. Num Pages: 520 pages, 19 colour & 240 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; ACVN; AMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1111.
This book explores the movement for design reform in turn-of-the-century Boston. When English craftsman, poet, and socialist William Morris advised consumers in the 1880s to 'have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful,' he prompted a movement for design reform in Britain, Europe, and America. Championing Morris's views, the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston led the quest for 'usefulness and beauty' in the United States. As the oldest arts and crafts organization in the country, it exerted considerable influence.Among the Boston reformers were design critics, whose profession became ... Read more
This book explores the movement for design reform in turn-of-the-century Boston. When English craftsman, poet, and socialist William Morris advised consumers in the 1880s to 'have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful,' he prompted a movement for design reform in Britain, Europe, and America. Championing Morris's views, the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston led the quest for 'usefulness and beauty' in the United States. As the oldest arts and crafts organization in the country, it exerted considerable influence.Among the Boston reformers were design critics, whose profession became ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558496774
SKU
V9781558496774
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About Beverly K. Brandt
BEVERLY K. BRANDT is professor of design history in the College of Design at Arizona State University.
Reviews for The Craftsman and the Critic: Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts-Era Boston
This is a study of the history of ideas as well as the history of a style, a study of criticism as well as form, and as such will have a long shelf-life.... Thoroughly researched and written with clarity, this book will be an indispensable reference work. - James. F. O'Gorman, coeditor of American Architects and Their Books, 1840-1915