Essential Arts and Crafts by Karen Livingstone

Essential Arts and Crafts by Karen Livingstone

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Summary

Karen Livingstone explores the origins, myths, and multiplicity of the Arts and Crafts movement through some of its most ground-breaking works. Encompassing painting and the Japanese Mingei (folkcraft) movement, she redefines and enlarges our understanding of Arts and Crafts, one of the seminal movements of the modern world.

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Essential Arts and Crafts by Karen Livingstone

This attractive small format book highlights the key characteristics of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, Europe, America and Japan and shows how its ideas were disseminated around the world. It showcases the best of the furniture, jewellery, silver and textiles from different continents, and puts these in the context of the architecture and interiors of the time.
Karen Livingstone is Curator of the exhibition International Arts and Crafts, and a Research Fellow at the V&A. She is editor with Linda Parry of International Arts and Crafts (2005) and has contributed to several publications, inlcuding Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain 1500-1900 (2001) and the Persistence of Craft (2002).
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ISBN 13 9781851774470
ISBN 10 1851774475
Title Essential Arts and Crafts
Author Karen Livingstone
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher V & A Publishing
Year published 2005-02-21
Number of pages 96
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.