Main entry:

Harrod, Tanya.

Title & Author:

The crafts in Britain in the twentieth century / Tanya Harrod.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1999.

Description:

496 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts by Yale University Press."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. 1916-1939 -- 1. Crafts Around 1916 -- 2. Setting the Scene -- 3. Finding a Place for the Crafts -- 4. Ideas, Attitudes and Inspirations -- 5. War -- Pt. II. 1945-1969 -- 6. Government and the Crafts -- 7. Art Education and Theory -- 8. 'More Possibilities' -- 9. Three Case Studies -- Pt. III. 1970-1990 -- 10. 'Sheer Enjoyment': The 1970s -- 11. Enterprise Culture: The 1980s.

Summary:

"From ceramics to silversmithing, calligraphy to textiles, hot glass to bookbinding, crafts have played a complex role in the social, cultural and artistic history of twentieth-century Britain. This book is the first to examine the full range of individual craft disciplines and key practitioners from the Arts and Crafts Movement before the first World War to the end of the 1980s. Tanya Harrod shows how the crafts movement emerged as a response to a more generalised anxiety about the production, commodification and consumption of objects in a highly industrialised society. Caught between the more powerful disciplines of fine art, architecture and design for industry, the crafts have defined and redefined themselves-throughout the century and been put to the service of many ideals and ideologies." "Historians, educationalists, craftsmen and women, artists and collectors, and readers with an interest in British cultural history will find this handsomely illustrated book poses fresh, unexpected questions."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0300077807 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300077803 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Decorative arts Great Britain History 20th century.
Arts and crafts movement Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain 20th century.
Arts décoratifs Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Arts and crafts movement Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Arts and crafts movement.
Decorative arts.
Great Britain.
Arts and Crafts (movement) Great Britain 1910-2000.
Decorative arts Great Britain 1910-2000.
Architecture (object genre) Great Britain 1910-2000.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203645
Call No.: NK928 .H3 1999
Status: Available