ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jane Addams, Geoffrey Chaucer, Arts And Crafts Movement
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A british art movement that saw the industrial revolution as detrimental to workers. Factory work was dirty, repetitive, and mindless. Credited as the founder of british arts and crafts movement in england which spread. Architect, textile designer, novelist, poet, translator, and activist. Influenced by medieval guild system, sought to revive it, which would transfer power from owner to worker. Guild - small groups of skilled worker. Making things by hand could transform the labor force: useful and sense of pride in. Thornes on the roses - highly detailed. When installed, the wallpaper goes from the high part of the wall to the. Could never lower labor cost - usually middle class artists work on them out of ceiling and the room also has patterned rug. Rejecting scientific illustration and look backwards to the medieval past (1500s) The attainment or joy but it was not effective as a business model. Worked with edward burne jones and john dearle.
