Arts & Crafts

Arts & Crafts is a celebration of the design movement that started in Britain and spread around the world at the end of the 19th century. Depicting both well-known and unusual art and artifacts from this most fascinating of eras, this book provides information about the lives and times of the designers, architects and artists who created them.

Info autore

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.David Rudd is a dealer of decorative arts in specializing in Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts movement. David studied art history, design, sculpture and photography at the State University of Buffalo and Syracuse University, USA. He has been consultant to several museums and major auction houses. In 1993 he was instrumental in starting the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York and is president of its Board of Directors.

Riassunto

Arts & Crafts is a celebration of the design movement that started in Britain and spread around the world at the end of the 19th century. Depicting both well-known and unusual art and artifacts from this most fascinating of eras, this book provides information about the lives and times of the designers, architects and artists who created them.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mike O'Mahony, Michael Robinson, Michael (Associate Professor of Sociolog Robinson, Michael (Associate Professor of Sociology) Robinson
• Con la collaborazione di: David Rudd (Prefazione), Rudd David (Prefazione)
• Editore: Flame Tree Publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781786647658
• ISBN: 978-1-78664-765-8
• Pagine: 384
• Serie: The World's Greatest Art; The World's Greatest Art
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; CRAFTS & HOBBIES / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Arts and Crafts, History of Art, Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style, Art & Design