Alfoldy, Sandra, 1969-2019.

The allied arts : architecture and craft in postwar Canada / Sandra Alfoldy.

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2012.

xv, 227 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in art history

During periods of close collaboration, championed by figures like John Ruskin and William Morris, architecture and craft were referred to as "the allied arts." By the mid-twentieth century, however, it was more common for the two disciplines to be considered distinct professional fields, with architecture having little to do with studio craft. The Allied Arts investigates the history of the complex relationship between craft and architecture by examining the intersection of these two areas in Canadian public buildings. Sandra Alfoldy explains the challenges facing the development of the field of public craft and documents the largely ignored public craft commissions of the post-war era in Canada. The book highlights the global concerns of material, scale, form, ornament, and identity shared by architects and craftspeople. It also examines the ways in which the allied arts are mediated by institutions and the fragility of craft commissions once considered an integral part of the built environment. Considering a wide range of craftspeople, materials, and forms - from the ceramics of Jack Sures and Jordi Bonnet to the textile work of Mariette Rousseau Vermette and Carole Sabiston - Alfoldy celebrates the successes of architectural craftsmanship. The first work of its kind, The Allied Arts develops ideas about the complex relationship between architecture and craft that reach well beyond national boundaries.

9780773539600 (bound)
0773539603
9780773540033 (pbk.)
0773540032

Architecture Canada History 20th century.
Handicraft Canada History 20th century.
Decorative arts Canada History 20th century.
Architecture Canada Histoire 20e siècle.
Artisanat Canada Histoire 20e siècle.
Arts décoratifs Canada Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Decorative arts.
Handicraft.
Canada.
Centre canadien d'architecture Mentions, acknowledgments, etc.

History.

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.

Location: Library main canada 277909
Call No.: NA745 .A44 2012
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available