Craftsman and the Critic - Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts-Era Boston

Informationen zum Autor Beverly K. Brandt is professor of design history in the College of Design at Arizona State University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Beverly Brandt, Beverly K Brandt, Beverly K. Brandt
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9781558496774
• ISBN: 978-1-55849-677-4
• No. of pages: 520
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history