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 designfor 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.

Taal / Language : English

Inhoudsopgave:

Acknowledgements		7	(2)
Foreword		9	(4)
Part I 1916-1939		13	(196)
ONE THE CRAFTS AROUND 1916		15	(14)
The legacy of William Morris		15	(3)
Criticisms and new directions		18	(4)
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society		22	(1)
Henry Wilson and the 1916 Exhibition		23	(3)
Last thoughts		26	(1)
Handicrafts and Reconstruction		27	(2)
TWO SETTING THE SCENE		29	(66)
Studio pottery		30	(12)
Textiles		42	(13)
Furniture		55	(15)
Silversmithing and jewellery		70	(8)
From writing to carving		78	(12)
Stained glass		90	(5)
THREE FINDING A PLACE FOR THE CRAFTS		95	(49)
Combined Arts		95	(6)
Fashions in church furnishings		101	(5)
Public building		106	(4)
Room and Book		110	(3)
The Modern Movement in England		113	(3)
Modern women		116	(2)
Design and Industry		118	(3)
Hand-weaving To-day		121	(2)
The Craft Societies		123	(3)
Shopping for craft		126	(9)
National projection: Paris 1937		135	(2)
A case study: the Dartington `experiment`		137	(7)
FOUR IDEAS, ATTITUDES AND INSPIRATIONS		144	(49)
Ideas		144	(9)
Things: Tools and Skills; Spontaneity
Attitudes		153	(17)
Guild Socialism; Distributism; Social Credit; Communism; Pilgrims to the Right; Politics in practice: handicraft and the unemployed; Politics in practice: artisans and artists; Pleasure
Inspirations		170	(23)
The organic community; The Indian Craftsman; The Far East; Africa
FIVE WAR		193	(16)
`...the very soil and stuff of Britain`		193	(6)
Arte Rustica Italiana		199	(4)
The Emigres		203	(2)
Banding together		205	(4)
Part II 1945-1969		209	(158)
SIX GOVERNMENT AND THE CRAFTS		211	(10)
SEVEN ART EDUCATION AND THEORY		221	(23)
Practical knowledge		221	(5)
Workshop philosophies		226	(5)
Art schools in the 1950s		231	(7)
Art schools in the 1960s		238	(3)
Craft and the counter-culture		241	(3)
EIGHT `MORE POSSIBILITIES`		244	(91)
New patrons		244	(6)
A design vacuum		250	(6)
Ceramics		256	(24)
Silversmithing and jewellery		280	(13)
Textiles		293	(15)
Bookbinding		308	(6)
Calligraphy and Lettering		314	(6)
Glass		320	(8)
Furniture		328	(7)
NINE THREE CASE STUDIES		335	(32)
Craft and Fine Art: St Ives		335	(7)
Craft and Design: The Festival of Britain		342	(10)
Craft and Architecture: Coventry Cathedral		352	(17)
Part III 1970-1990		367	(99)
TEN `SHEER ENJOYMENT`: THE 1970s		369	(42)
A Whim of Iron		369	(11)
New definitions: The Craftsman`s Art		380	(7)
Articulating the object		387	(6)
The Workshop: a counter discourse		393	(7)
`Meet the Craftsman`		400	(4)
The Maker`s Eye		404	(7)
ELEVEN ENTERPRISE CULTURE: THE 1980s		411	(55)
Policy Review		411	(3)
Small business		414	(6)
A call to order		420	(12)
The design decade		432	(3)
Utopian interiors		435	(2)
Salvage baroque		437	(6)
Art and architecture		443	(13)
Codes and Messages		456	(3)
Out of the Wood		459	(3)
The Wilding Report		462	(2)
Falls the shadow		464	(2)
Notes		466	(23)
Index		489

Extra informatie: Gebonden: harde kaft, 496 pagina's Verschenen: februari 1999 Gewicht: 3322 gram Formaat: 316 x 255 x 45 mm Yale University Press

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