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The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century by Tanya Harrod (Hardcover, 1999)
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ISBN-13: 9780300077803, 978-0300077803. The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century Author(s): Tanya Harrod. From ceramics to silversmithing, calligraphy to textiles, hot glass to bookbinding, crafts have played a rich and complex role in the social, cultural, and artistic history of twentieth-century Britain.
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From ceramics to silversmithing, calligraphy to textiles, hot glass to bookbinding, crafts have played a rich and complex role in the social, cultural, and artistic history of twentieth-century Britain. This all-encompassing book is the first to survey the full range of individual craft disciplines and key practitioners from the pre-World War I years of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the 1990s. Tanya Harrod shows how the crafts movement emerged in response to generalized anxiety about the production, commodification, and consumption of objects in a highly industrialized society. Caught between the more powerful disciplines of fine art, architecture, and design for industry, crafts have defined and redefined themselves throughout the century. The book begins with the craft revival of the early 1900s, tracing the complex legacy of John Ruskin and William Morris. The author then discusses how the Arts and Crafts Movement was forced to reexamine its aims during the Great War; how the development of the crafts was closely connected to the development of modernism between the wars; and how during World War II the idea of the handmade, often in the form of vernacular craft discovered in remote pockets of England, played a significant part in propagandizing a national culture worth defending. The book also explores the postwar beginnings of a countercultural workshop-based craft movement led by Bernard Leach and the continuing redefinition of crafts as the government-funded Crafts Council pushed them toward the fine arts and then the government attempted in the 1980s to recast them as exemplars of enterprise culture. Harrod describes the increasingly blurred division between craft and design for mass production at the conclusion of the book. Along with historians, educators, artists, craftspersons, and collectors, readers with an interest in British cultural history will find in this book much to delight and fascinate. This book accompanies an exhibition of British crafts, ?The Pleasures of Peace: Craft, Art and Design in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s,? that will open at the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia in spring 1999.Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-139780300077803
eBay Product ID (ePID)27046593133
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Book TitleThe Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century
AuthorTanya Harrod
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicDecorative Art
Publication Year1999
Number of Pages496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height317mm
Item Width255mm
Item Weight3306g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorTanya Harrod
Series TitleBard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (Yup)
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 05 Jul, 2023
standard work
It's sort of a standard work in a field where there isn't a lot of literature apart from fairly ephemeral periodicals.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
