HECOL201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Utopia, Real Humans, The Great Exhibition
30 Sep 2016
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Arts and crafts movement ! major player - william morris ! writer, poet, critic, socialist activist, interior and furniture designer, textile, wallpaper, painter, illustrator, weaving, tiling, embroidery - was very wealthy ! Morris" shift ! movement after the great exhibition ! had effects in politics ! Uk pof of some of the in uences that were important:! Arts and crafts movement idealized! visual styles of past - mediaeval/ gothic ~1300-1500! working practices of the past (artisan/ no mechanization)! John ruskin (1819-1900)! not a founder - but people built off his ideas! statues looked a lot like freak statues - men were more so sculpted than the women ! had issues with female relationships! Architect, designer, writer! a nations art is a symptom of its moral health ! Unity of art and craft together ! Believed that society would then progress in a good way ! development of the idea of incorporating ethics into the way things are designed !
