Arts & Crafts Masterpieces of Art

Arts & Crafts Masterpieces of Art is a celebration of one of the most enduring design movements. Depicting both well-known and unusual artworks and textile patterns from this most fascinating of eras, this book provides a wealth of information on the designers, architects and artists who created them, from Voysey and Morris to Lindsay Butterfield.

About the author

Michael Robinson is a freelance lecturer and writer on British art and design history. Originally an art dealer with his own provincial gallery in Sussex, he entered academic life by way of a career change, having gained a first class honours and Masters degree at Kingston University. He is currently working on his doctorate, a study of early modernist period British dealers. He continues to lecture on British and French art of the Modern period.

Summary

Arts & Crafts: Masterpieces of Art is a celebration of the design movement that spread rapidly around the world at the end of the nineteenth century. Depicting both well-known and unusual artworks, textile patterns and decorations from this most fascinating of eras, this book provides a wealth of information about the lives and times of the designers, architects and artists who created them, from Voysey and Morris to Lindsay Butterfield.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Robinson
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2015
• EAN: 9781783613199
• ISBN: 978-1-78361-319-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Masterpieces of Art; Masterpieces of Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Arts and Crafts, History of Art, history of design, ART / Individual Artists / Artists' Books, Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Art & Design