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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Arts and Crafts Movement"”.
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The Arts and Crafts movement: exchanges between Greece and Britain (1876-1930)
This thesis discusses exchanges between Britain and Greece as part of the Arts and Crafts Movement which took shape in England in the 1880s. It had an impact throughout Europe; its influence was especially significant on newly emergent nation states. Two important elements were the use of the past …
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Brynmawr experiment 1928-1940 : Quaker values and arts and crafts principles
… South Wales during the depressions of the 1920s and 1930s. The work, which took place during the years 1928 to 1940, has become known as the Brynmawr Experiment. The initial provision of practical and financial relief for a town suffering severely from the effects of unemployment, was developed …
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Renaissance to Regent Street: Harold Rathbone and the Della Robbia Pottery of Birkenhead
… Robbia Pottery within the wider histories of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the thesis makes an original contribution in three ways. Using new sources of primary documentation, I discuss the artistic response to Italianate style by Rathbone and his mentors Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt, …
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Handcrafting a national industry : the production and patronage of Alexander Morton & Company's Donegal carpets
This thesis offers a social history of Alexander Morton & Company's Donegal carpets--their production and patronage. These nineteenth-century carpets were promoted as artistic products and appealed to upper- and middle-class consumers in Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and …
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The Works of Josef Hoffmann Koloman Moser and The Wiener Werkstatte
I examine the Viennese Arts and Crafts Movement as a case study for modern design theory during the first thirty years of the 20th century. I establish that through the implementation of innovative design concepts, manufacturing collaborations and retail experiments that the Wiener Werkstätte …
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Evelyn Gleeson and The Dun Emer Guild: Redefining a Woman’s Place in the Arts
… field. It adds to recent endeavors to understand the role of women as artists in the early twentieth century by highlighting the contributions of specific women who revolutionized Irish art. The thesis emphasizes aspects of art often omitted from art history, including “domestic” pieces such …
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"Trifles of value": Craft as communication in Victorian literature
… in Elizabeth Gaskell's <em>Cranford</em> and Margaret Oliphant's <em>Miss Marjoribanks</em>. By looking at the novels through the lens of Talia Schaffer's craft paradigm in connection with Thing theory, it is possible to make connections between the role of craft and identity, which in …
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Gustav Stickley's Hapke-Geiger House and Noland and Baskervill's Hunton House: Richmond Architecture ca. 1915
… architecture as conveniently divided into styles and periods, but in reality styles overlap. At the turn-of-the-twentieth century there were three major architectural and decorative movements in the United States: the Aesthetic Movement, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the American Renaissance …
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Creating the Irish Book: The Cultural and Aesthetic Work of the Dolmen Press
Inspired by William Morris’s Arts and Crafts Movement, as well as Elizabeth Yeats’s Cuala Press, Liam Miller established The Dolmen Press in Dublin in 1951. An architect by trade, Miller had little editorial experience and even less knowledge of the printing craft. Yet, he fiercely believed that …
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The Green Dining Room: The Experience of an Arts and Crafts Interior
… in Victorian Britain, when idealistic artists and architects elevated the status of the decorative arts in fine art circles, promoted the ideal of joy in labour, and sought beauty in the everyday. The Green Dining Room is considered a quintessential example of an early decorative scheme by …
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The lives and works of the women artists at the Della Robbia Pottery Birkenhead in late Victorian and Edwardian England
The lives of three female and one male artist working at the Della Robbia Pottery in Birkenhead are the subjects of a case study located in Liverpool. The case study examines the larger issues concerning the employment of women, particularly working and middle-class women, in the decorative arts in …
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Studio of Nature: The Transformation of Artists' Studios, 1845–1910
… examines artists' studios in Britain, France, and the United States from the advent of Realism to the Arts and Crafts movement at the turn of the twentieth century. I consider in particular how changing conceptions of the natural environment in the nineteenth century contributed to the …
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Enhancing the capabilities of small producers in developing countries to meet global challenges: an investigation into the contribution of international craft development initiatives.
… field experience derived from the African and South Pacific contexts and a multiple case study analysis of craft development organizations, the research investigates the pre-conceptions that lie behind approaches adopted in craft development initiatives. Two emerging elements of particular …
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Eco-socialism in the early poetry and prose of William Morris
William Morris was a highly significant political and cultural figure of the nineteenth century. He was a great artist-craftsman and was hugely influential in the rise of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the second half of the nineteenth century, a movement which saw the revival of traditional …
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English Cottage Style Homes in America: Expressions of Architectural, Technological and Social Innovation
… simplification of design, a rationalism of plan, and a structural integrity reminiscent of rural medieval buildings. English Cottage Style homes gained popularity in Britain and later in America as a middle-class house type, promoted by Progressive Era housing reformers, including Gustave …
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A Sign in the Pattern: The Creation of Mary Seton Watts’s Ideal Design in the Compton Mortuary Chapel (Surrey, England, 1898)
… addresses the hierarchal categorization and canonization of the arts as influenced by dominant power structures through the work of turn of the century artist Mary Seton Fraser-Tytler Watts and the Compton mortuary chapel, or Watts Chapel, project in the Guildford district of Surrey, UK. …
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Modern Poetry of Work, the Work of Modern Poetry
… history of modern American poetry. The study starts by uncovering how work, workers, and working-class political movements of the first half of the twentieth century forged the literary and political sensibilities of two of modernism's most influential poets, T. S. Eliot and Carl Sandburg. For …
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May Morris and the Making of Art, c. 1880 - 1938
… presents a new, critical study of the career and work of May Morris (1862-1938), an artist, writer, lecturer and leading figure of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Interest in Morris has grown in recent years, principally through the major exhibition *May Morris: Art & Life* (2017) and the …
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Doing and talking : the value of video interviewing for researching and theorizing craft
This thesis delineates a problem with researching and theorizing about craft. It argues that traditional epistemologies and academic conventions have not given sufficient recognition or value to the epistemologies and lived experiences of craft practitioners, and that they have served to obscure …
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Mind the gaps! : an advanced practice model for the understanding and development of fine craft practice
… of craft practice, its theoretical underpinning, and criteria for the evaluation of the products of practice. It appears that this problem emanates from craft itself which has few, if any, practitioners writing from their perspective of practice. A practitioner herself, with all the tacit …
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