Influenced by developments in Europe, American proponents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries successfully promoted the "minor arts" as fine art hand-wrought by individual craftsmen, extolling the virtue of everyday objects and a return to honest, simple materials and workmanship. The designs are, perhaps, the closest embodiment there is of "American style". Included are furniture, ceramics, metalwork, glass, books, drawings and textiles by Gustav Stickley, Greene & Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright, Tiffany Studios and many ...
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Influenced by developments in Europe, American proponents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries successfully promoted the "minor arts" as fine art hand-wrought by individual craftsmen, extolling the virtue of everyday objects and a return to honest, simple materials and workmanship. The designs are, perhaps, the closest embodiment there is of "American style". Included are furniture, ceramics, metalwork, glass, books, drawings and textiles by Gustav Stickley, Greene & Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright, Tiffany Studios and many others. This book looks at their work.
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VG/VG-ligth scuffing to dust jacket, and minor wear to edges and corners. Dark green, color pictorial wraps. 255 pp., profusely illustrated with 190 color and 275 bw plates and photographs. A terrific reference. Includes Introduction by Max Palevsky. Subject headings for the essays (after the main essays "Setting the Stage: Europe" and "Myths and Realities of the American Arts and Crafts Movement") include Furniture, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass and Miscellaneous Mediums. Appendix of Marks, Bibliography; Suggested Readings; Index.
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Very Good. 1990. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear; sunning to jacket spine, extending to edges of panels. Else fine. A bright, clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Decorative Arts).
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