ARTHI 6C Lecture 5: Lecture 5 Revivalism - The Arts & Crafts Movement
Guest lecturer: Matthew Limb
•
Craft terms
Artisanal
○
Craft-brewed
○
Hand-crafted
○
Small-batch
○
Handmade
○
•
The idea of goods being made by hand through skilled labor has become a value
in American culture
•
Craft vs. design
Craft
Made by hand
§
Controls entire process of making start to finish
§
A craftsperson produces all of the objects
§
○
Design
Manufactures
§
Craftsperson designs a single object, which is then made by others
in a factory setting
§
○
•
Joseph Wright of Derby The Blacksmith's Shop 1771
Depicts skilled labor of blacksmithing
○
•
Tensions between skilled and unskilled labor
•
Joseph Paxton Interior of the Crystal Palace 1851
Great Exhibition of the World's Fairs
○
Nationalist projects
○
Industry, science, art, design
○
Empire and colonies
○
•
Unknown, Furnishing Fabric
Roller-printed and glazed cotton
○
Considered a high-quality chintz of mid 19th century Britain
○
•
Unknown, Sari
Silk and gold thread
○
Draped garment worn by women in India
○
Geometric and abstract design seen as superior to British design
○
Massive identity crisis caused by British
The Indian designs looked more superior than British design
§
Led to British Design Reform movement
William Morris
British poet, novelist, architect, activist, textile designer
®
Founder of the Arts & Crafts Movement which spread
from Britain to the US and throughout Europe
®
Influenced by medieval guild system, sought to revive it,
which would transfer power from owner to worker
®
Making things by hand could transform the labor force:
useful and sense of pride in work, instead of
replaceable
®
Influenced by the Gothic Revival and Revivalism
®
□
§
○
•
Imperial Federation Map Showing the Extent of the British Empire
Color lithograph
○
British imperialism
○
•
Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain
British art movement that viewed the Industrial Revolution as detrimental
to workers
○
Factory work was dirty, repetitive, and mindless
○
Unskilled labor = replaceable "cog in the machine"
○
Skilled labor = joy and investment in labor
○
Karl Marx writing in London and Manchester --> thinking about how
objects mediate social interaction
○
Movement interested in Medieval and Elizabethan culture --> Revivalism
○
Stylistic focus on patterning, flatness, and vivid color
○
•
Goals of the movement
Improve the social and economic status of immigrants ad the poor
through craft: teaching skilled labor
○
Design reform: teach manual hand skills in design and art schools rather
than copying models
○
Transform labor: handmade objects could be both useful and beautiful
○
Utopian communities: communities of like-minded craftspeople and
artists coming together to make a living through their arts; self sufficient;
rural areas
○
Good design is affordable, useful, beautiful, and can improve the quality
of life
○
Objects: furniture making, book binding, weaving, ceramics, metalwork,
glass
○
•
iClicker: What was one of the motivations behind the British Design Reform
Movement?
British designers were impressed wit the geometric abstraction and
geometric designs of their colonies
○
•
Plain mug vs. Artsy mug
Plain mug
Mass-produced and machine made
§
Economical
§
Not worried about breaking the object
§
Better for quick, on-the-go or when in a hurry
§
○
Artsy mug
Handmade
§
More expressive
§
Object is more aesthetically pleasing and not easily replaceable
§
Turns the act of drinking into an experience
§
Slows time down, "stop and smell the roses"
§
Bring art and design into the domestic space ----> higher quality of
life
§
○
•
Sussex Chair designed by Philip Webb
Manufacturers: William Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
○
Ebonized beechwood with a rush seat
○
Very popular chair within elite artistic circles
○
Design so successful that Morris and Co. created an entire line of
variations of this chair
○
Turned wood techniques references medieval English chairs
○
Japanese aesthetics utilized
○
•
Morris Chair (Adjustable Back chair) designed by Philip Webb
Manufacturers: William Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
○
Turned ebonized wood with velvet upholstery
○
One of the first reclining chairs -- leisurely purpose
○
Materials: ebonized wood (Japanese influence), velvet (sensuous, supple,
intricate)
○
•
Pomegranate - designed by William Morris
Woodblock printed wallpaper
○
Design reform principles: flatness, geometry, nature
○
Pointillist tonality
○
Woodblock print = thicker, more vivid dyes than machine printed papers
and fabrics
○
•
Red House
Architect: Philip Webb
○
Built for William and Jane Morris
○
Built with red brick which was a material of the working class
○
Medieval vernacular architecture meets modernism
○
Red brick = humble material signifying the working class
○
Emphasis on exterior design of the building's structure
○
•
Charles Robert Ashbee
British architect and designer
○
Major figure in the British Arts and Crafts Movement; ideas influential
throughout Britain and the US
○
Founded The Guild and School of the handicraft in 1888, while a resident
at Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall, est. 1884
First settlement house□
Social work establishments set up in highly populated areas of
immigrants and working class people
□
§
○
More political than William Morris, wanted to apply socialist political
beliefs to artistic production
○
Trained unskilled workers, created a way for them to make a living and
provided communal housing
○
Trying to make a community
○
Ashbee and Morris differ
Ashbee cares about women and women's labor as Morris doesn't
care
§
○
Produce high-end, beautiful objects aimed at the elite
○
Staunch supporter of gender equality and homosexual rights
○
•
Utopia
An imaginary and indefinitely remote place
○
A place of ideal perfection, especially in laws, government, and social
conditions
○
An impractical scheme for social improvement
○
•
Sporting Cup
Designed by Charles Robert Ashbee; manufactured: Guild of Handicraft
○
References to nature
○
Modernizing past forms
○
Vessel form references 15th/16th century Ecclesiastical chalices (Eucharist
cups)
○
•
Pendant and Chain
Designed by C.R. Ashbee
○
Enameled gold and silver, turquoise matrix
○
Peacock as a distinctively flamboyant motif (found commonly in Ashbee's
work)
○
Unusual, uncut stones lacking polish and smoothness
Allowing the material to "be as it is"
§
Honesty and truth to the material
§
○
•
Decanter
Designed by Charles Robert Ashbee; manufactured: Guild of Handicraft
○
Glass with silver mounts and chrysoprase set in the finial
○
Ashbee designed the vessel based on the form of an Elizabethan bottle
○
"it was doubtless bottles of that shape, good solid glass, from which the
characters of Shakespeare's plays and his worthies drank their sherry"
○
•
Bringing British Ideas to America
Arts and Crafts Movement in the US
Retained similar goals as Britain with some important exceptions:
American and the Machine□
Fordism: modern economic and social system based on
industrialized, standardized, mass production and
consumption
□
Democratic design - design should be for all□
Craft labor and immigration□
Utopia and the artist colony□
Much larger middle-class so objects were more widely
disseminated (largest in the world)
□
Landscape is the focus because US doesn't have historical
architecture or anything to cherry pick from
□
§
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Meets with William Morris in UK, from US□
Colored glass and bronze lamps
Leaded favrile glass patented by Tiffany
Entire piece of glass is this color, not like stained
glass which is painted
◊
Extremely vibrantly detailed
◊
®
□
§
Hull House in Chicago, US
Settlement house□
Founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1898□
Polish and Irish immigrants mainly -- eventually Hispanic□
Classes such as English (as a second language), skills courses,
arts and labor
□
§
Saturday Evening Girls' Club
Paul revere pottery□
Program aimed at immigrant women of Irish, Italian, and
Eastern European heritage
□
Provided participants with practical skills and earn money□
Founders worked to Americanize participants□
Held on Saturday evenings to keep the girls off the streets and
assimilate them into American life
□
Rabbit Bowl/Decorated Bowls
Largest money maker for the S.E.G.
®
Custom sets of children's tablewares and dish sets
®
□
§
Vase
Newcomb College Pottery
Co-ed, men throwing the pottery forms and women
handle decoration
®
Same concepts as the S.E.G.
®
Heavily influenced by nature
®
New Orleans
®
□
§
iClicker: what was one major difference between the American A&C
movement and the British A&C movement?
American designers were more heavily invested in landscape
as inspiration as they did not draw from European revivalism
□
§
Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock NY
Art colony□
Utopian community□
Self-sufficient□
Linen Press
Oak, tulip poplar, brass
®
□
Landscape painting, placed on objects□
Connection between nature and objects produced□
§
Roycroft Community in East Aurora, NY
Big on the idea of self-sufficiency□
Form presses to print their own books□
Had their own marching band, baseball team, etc.□
§
Hollyhock House in LA
Total Work of Art: □
§
George Ohr
Influential American ceramist□
Eccentric person□
People hated his art□
Crushed and repulsive form pottery□
Bright and vivid colors□
Very different from anything else going on at his time□
Studio potter who did everything himself from start to finish□
§
○
•
Lecture 5: Revivalism - The Arts & Crafts Movement
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
10:29 AM
Guest lecturer: Matthew Limb•
Craft terms
Artisanal
○
Craft-brewed
○
Hand-crafted
○
Small-batch
○
Handmade
○
•
The idea of goods being made by hand through skilled labor has become a value
in American culture
•
Craft vs. design
Craft
Made by hand
§
Controls entire process of making start to finish
§
A craftsperson produces all of the objects
§
○
Design
Manufactures
§
Craftsperson designs a single object, which is then made by others
in a factory setting
§
○
•
Joseph Wright of Derby The Blacksmith's Shop 1771
Depicts skilled labor of blacksmithing
○
•
Tensions between skilled and unskilled labor•
Joseph Paxton Interior of the Crystal Palace 1851
Great Exhibition of the World's Fairs
○
Nationalist projects
○
Industry, science, art, design
○
Empire and colonies
○
•
Unknown, Furnishing Fabric
Roller-printed and glazed cotton
○
Considered a high-quality chintz of mid 19th century Britain
○
•
Unknown, Sari
Silk and gold thread
○
Draped garment worn by women in India
○
Geometric and abstract design seen as superior to British design
○
Massive identity crisis caused by British
The Indian designs looked more superior than British design
§
Led to British Design Reform movement
William Morris
British poet, novelist, architect, activist, textile designer
®
Founder of the Arts & Crafts Movement which spread
from Britain to the US and throughout Europe
®
Influenced by medieval guild system, sought to revive it,
which would transfer power from owner to worker
®
Making things by hand could transform the labor force:
useful and sense of pride in work, instead of
replaceable
®
Influenced by the Gothic Revival and Revivalism
®
□
§
○
•
Imperial Federation Map Showing the Extent of the British Empire
Color lithograph
○
British imperialism
○
•
Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain
British art movement that viewed the Industrial Revolution as detrimental
to workers
○
Factory work was dirty, repetitive, and mindless
○
Unskilled labor = replaceable "cog in the machine"
○
Skilled labor = joy and investment in labor
○
Karl Marx writing in London and Manchester --> thinking about how
objects mediate social interaction
○
Movement interested in Medieval and Elizabethan culture --> Revivalism
○
Stylistic focus on patterning, flatness, and vivid color
○
•
Goals of the movement
Improve the social and economic status of immigrants ad the poor
through craft: teaching skilled labor
○
Design reform: teach manual hand skills in design and art schools rather
than copying models
○
Transform labor: handmade objects could be both useful and beautiful
○
Utopian communities: communities of like-minded craftspeople and
artists coming together to make a living through their arts; self sufficient;
rural areas
○
Good design is affordable, useful, beautiful, and can improve the quality
of life
○
Objects: furniture making, book binding, weaving, ceramics, metalwork,
glass
○
•
iClicker: What was one of the motivations behind the British Design Reform
Movement?
British designers were impressed wit the geometric abstraction and
geometric designs of their colonies
○
•
Plain mug vs. Artsy mug
Plain mug
Mass-produced and machine made
§
Economical
§
Not worried about breaking the object
§
Better for quick, on-the-go or when in a hurry
§
○
Artsy mug
Handmade
§
More expressive
§
Object is more aesthetically pleasing and not easily replaceable
§
Turns the act of drinking into an experience
§
Slows time down, "stop and smell the roses"
§
Bring art and design into the domestic space ----> higher quality of
life
§
○
•
Sussex Chair designed by Philip Webb
Manufacturers: William Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
○
Ebonized beechwood with a rush seat
○
Very popular chair within elite artistic circles
○
Design so successful that Morris and Co. created an entire line of
variations of this chair
○
Turned wood techniques references medieval English chairs
○
Japanese aesthetics utilized
○
•
Morris Chair (Adjustable Back chair) designed by Philip Webb
Manufacturers: William Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
○
Turned ebonized wood with velvet upholstery
○
One of the first reclining chairs -- leisurely purpose
○
Materials: ebonized wood (Japanese influence), velvet (sensuous, supple,
intricate)
○
•
Pomegranate - designed by William Morris
Woodblock printed wallpaper
○
Design reform principles: flatness, geometry, nature
○
Pointillist tonality
○
Woodblock print = thicker, more vivid dyes than machine printed papers
and fabrics
○
•
Red House
Architect: Philip Webb
○
Built for William and Jane Morris
○
Built with red brick which was a material of the working class
○
Medieval vernacular architecture meets modernism
○
Red brick = humble material signifying the working class
○
Emphasis on exterior design of the building's structure
○
•
Charles Robert Ashbee
British architect and designer
○
Major figure in the British Arts and Crafts Movement; ideas influential
throughout Britain and the US
○
Founded The Guild and School of the handicraft in 1888, while a resident
at Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall, est. 1884
First settlement house□
Social work establishments set up in highly populated areas of
immigrants and working class people
□
§
○
More political than William Morris, wanted to apply socialist political
beliefs to artistic production
○
Trained unskilled workers, created a way for them to make a living and
provided communal housing
○
Trying to make a community
○
Ashbee and Morris differ
Ashbee cares about women and women's labor as Morris doesn't
care
§
○
Produce high-end, beautiful objects aimed at the elite
○
Staunch supporter of gender equality and homosexual rights
○
•
Utopia
An imaginary and indefinitely remote place
○
A place of ideal perfection, especially in laws, government, and social
conditions
○
An impractical scheme for social improvement
○
•
Sporting Cup
Designed by Charles Robert Ashbee; manufactured: Guild of Handicraft
○
References to nature
○
Modernizing past forms
○
Vessel form references 15th/16th century Ecclesiastical chalices (Eucharist
cups)
○
•
Pendant and Chain
Designed by C.R. Ashbee
○
Enameled gold and silver, turquoise matrix
○
Peacock as a distinctively flamboyant motif (found commonly in Ashbee's
work)
○
Unusual, uncut stones lacking polish and smoothness
Allowing the material to "be as it is"
§
Honesty and truth to the material
§
○
•
Decanter
Designed by Charles Robert Ashbee; manufactured: Guild of Handicraft
○
Glass with silver mounts and chrysoprase set in the finial
○
Ashbee designed the vessel based on the form of an Elizabethan bottle
○
"it was doubtless bottles of that shape, good solid glass, from which the
characters of Shakespeare's plays and his worthies drank their sherry"
○
•
Bringing British Ideas to America
Arts and Crafts Movement in the US
Retained similar goals as Britain with some important exceptions:
American and the Machine□
Fordism: modern economic and social system based on
industrialized, standardized, mass production and
consumption
□
Democratic design - design should be for all□
Craft labor and immigration□
Utopia and the artist colony□
Much larger middle-class so objects were more widely
disseminated (largest in the world)
□
Landscape is the focus because US doesn't have historical
architecture or anything to cherry pick from
□
§
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Meets with William Morris in UK, from US□
Colored glass and bronze lamps
Leaded favrile glass patented by Tiffany
Entire piece of glass is this color, not like stained
glass which is painted
◊
Extremely vibrantly detailed
◊
®
□
§
Hull House in Chicago, US
Settlement house□
Founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1898□
Polish and Irish immigrants mainly -- eventually Hispanic□
Classes such as English (as a second language), skills courses,
arts and labor
□
§
Saturday Evening Girls' Club
Paul revere pottery□
Program aimed at immigrant women of Irish, Italian, and
Eastern European heritage
□
Provided participants with practical skills and earn money□
Founders worked to Americanize participants□
Held on Saturday evenings to keep the girls off the streets and
assimilate them into American life
□
Rabbit Bowl/Decorated Bowls
Largest money maker for the S.E.G.
®
Custom sets of children's tablewares and dish sets
®
□
§
Vase
Newcomb College Pottery
Co-ed, men throwing the pottery forms and women
handle decoration
®
Same concepts as the S.E.G.
®
Heavily influenced by nature
®
New Orleans
®
□
§
iClicker: what was one major difference between the American A&C
movement and the British A&C movement?
American designers were more heavily invested in landscape
as inspiration as they did not draw from European revivalism
□
§
Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock NY
Art colony□
Utopian community□
Self-sufficient□
Linen Press
Oak, tulip poplar, brass
®
□
Landscape painting, placed on objects□
Connection between nature and objects produced□
§
Roycroft Community in East Aurora, NY
Big on the idea of self-sufficiency□
Form presses to print their own books□
Had their own marching band, baseball team, etc.□
§
Hollyhock House in LA
Total Work of Art: □
§
George Ohr
Influential American ceramist□
Eccentric person□
People hated his art□
Crushed and repulsive form pottery□
Bright and vivid colors□
Very different from anything else going on at his time□
Studio potter who did everything himself from start to finish□
§
○
•
Lecture 5: Revivalism - The Arts & Crafts Movement
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
10:29 AM
Guest lecturer: Matthew Limb•
Craft terms
Artisanal
○
Craft-brewed
○
Hand-crafted
○
Small-batch
○
Handmade
○
•
The idea of goods being made by hand through skilled labor has become a value
in American culture
•
Craft vs. design
Craft
Made by hand
§
Controls entire process of making start to finish
§
A craftsperson produces all of the objects
§
○
Design
Manufactures
§
Craftsperson designs a single object, which is then made by others
in a factory setting
§
○
•
Joseph Wright of Derby The Blacksmith's Shop 1771
Depicts skilled labor of blacksmithing
○
•
Tensions between skilled and unskilled labor•
Joseph Paxton Interior of the Crystal Palace 1851
Great Exhibition of the World's Fairs
○
Nationalist projects
○
Industry, science, art, design
○
Empire and colonies
○
•
Unknown, Furnishing Fabric
Roller-printed and glazed cotton
○
Considered a high-quality chintz of mid 19th century Britain
○
•
Unknown, Sari
Silk and gold thread
○
Draped garment worn by women in India
○
Geometric and abstract design seen as superior to British design
○
Massive identity crisis caused by British
The Indian designs looked more superior than British design
§
Led to British Design Reform movement
William Morris
British poet, novelist, architect, activist, textile designer
®
Founder of the Arts & Crafts Movement which spread
from Britain to the US and throughout Europe
®
Influenced by medieval guild system, sought to revive it,
which would transfer power from owner to worker
®
Making things by hand could transform the labor force:
useful and sense of pride in work, instead of
replaceable
®
Influenced by the Gothic Revival and Revivalism
®
□
§
○
•
Imperial Federation Map Showing the Extent of the British Empire
Color lithograph
○
British imperialism
○
•
Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain
British art movement that viewed the Industrial Revolution as detrimental
to workers
○
Factory work was dirty, repetitive, and mindless
○
Unskilled labor = replaceable "cog in the machine"
○
Skilled labor = joy and investment in labor
○
Karl Marx writing in London and Manchester --> thinking about how
objects mediate social interaction
○
Movement interested in Medieval and Elizabethan culture --> Revivalism
○
Stylistic focus on patterning, flatness, and vivid color
○
•
Goals of the movement
Improve the social and economic status of immigrants ad the poor
through craft: teaching skilled labor
○
Design reform: teach manual hand skills in design and art schools rather
than copying models
○
Transform labor: handmade objects could be both useful and beautiful
○
Utopian communities: communities of like-minded craftspeople and
artists coming together to make a living through their arts; self sufficient;
rural areas
○
Good design is affordable, useful, beautiful, and can improve the quality
of life
○
Objects: furniture making, book binding, weaving, ceramics, metalwork,
glass
○
•
iClicker: What was one of the motivations behind the British Design Reform
Movement?
British designers were impressed wit the geometric abstraction and
geometric designs of their colonies
○
•
Plain mug vs. Artsy mug
Plain mug
Mass-produced and machine made
§
Economical
§
Not worried about breaking the object
§
Better for quick, on-the-go or when in a hurry
§
○
Artsy mug
Handmade
§
More expressive
§
Object is more aesthetically pleasing and not easily replaceable
§
Turns the act of drinking into an experience
§
Slows time down, "stop and smell the roses"
§
Bring art and design into the domestic space ----> higher quality of
life
§
○
•
Sussex Chair designed by Philip Webb
Manufacturers: William Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
○
Ebonized beechwood with a rush seat
○
Very popular chair within elite artistic circles
○
Design so successful that Morris and Co. created an entire line of
variations of this chair
○
Turned wood techniques references medieval English chairs
○
Japanese aesthetics utilized
○
•
Morris Chair (Adjustable Back chair) designed by Philip Webb
Manufacturers: William Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
○
Turned ebonized wood with velvet upholstery
○
One of the first reclining chairs -- leisurely purpose
○
Materials: ebonized wood (Japanese influence), velvet (sensuous, supple,
intricate)
○
•
Pomegranate - designed by William Morris
Woodblock printed wallpaper
○
Design reform principles: flatness, geometry, nature
○
Pointillist tonality
○
Woodblock print = thicker, more vivid dyes than machine printed papers
and fabrics
○
•
Red House
Architect: Philip Webb
○
Built for William and Jane Morris
○
Built with red brick which was a material of the working class
○
Medieval vernacular architecture meets modernism
○
Red brick = humble material signifying the working class
○
Emphasis on exterior design of the building's structure
○
•
Charles Robert Ashbee
British architect and designer
○
Major figure in the British Arts and Crafts Movement; ideas influential
throughout Britain and the US
○
Founded The Guild and School of the handicraft in 1888, while a resident
at Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall, est. 1884
First settlement house□
Social work establishments set up in highly populated areas of
immigrants and working class people
□
§
○
More political than William Morris, wanted to apply socialist political
beliefs to artistic production
○
Trained unskilled workers, created a way for them to make a living and
provided communal housing
○
Trying to make a community
○
Ashbee and Morris differ
Ashbee cares about women and women's labor as Morris doesn't
care
§
○
Produce high-end, beautiful objects aimed at the elite
○
Staunch supporter of gender equality and homosexual rights
○
•
Utopia
An imaginary and indefinitely remote place
○
A place of ideal perfection, especially in laws, government, and social
conditions
○
An impractical scheme for social improvement
○
•
Sporting Cup
Designed by Charles Robert Ashbee; manufactured: Guild of Handicraft
○
References to nature
○
Modernizing past forms
○
Vessel form references 15th/16th century Ecclesiastical chalices (Eucharist
cups)
○
•
Pendant and Chain
Designed by C.R. Ashbee
○
Enameled gold and silver, turquoise matrix
○
Peacock as a distinctively flamboyant motif (found commonly in Ashbee's
work)
○
Unusual, uncut stones lacking polish and smoothness
Allowing the material to "be as it is"
§
Honesty and truth to the material
§
○
•
Decanter
Designed by Charles Robert Ashbee; manufactured: Guild of Handicraft
○
Glass with silver mounts and chrysoprase set in the finial
○
Ashbee designed the vessel based on the form of an Elizabethan bottle
○
"it was doubtless bottles of that shape, good solid glass, from which the
characters of Shakespeare's plays and his worthies drank their sherry"
○
•
Bringing British Ideas to America
Arts and Crafts Movement in the US
Retained similar goals as Britain with some important exceptions:
American and the Machine□
Fordism: modern economic and social system based on
industrialized, standardized, mass production and
consumption
□
Democratic design - design should be for all□
Craft labor and immigration□
Utopia and the artist colony□
Much larger middle-class so objects were more widely
disseminated (largest in the world)
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Landscape is the focus because US doesn't have historical
architecture or anything to cherry pick from
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Louis Comfort Tiffany
Meets with William Morris in UK, from US□
Colored glass and bronze lamps
Leaded favrile glass patented by Tiffany
Entire piece of glass is this color, not like stained
glass which is painted
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Extremely vibrantly detailed
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Hull House in Chicago, US
Settlement house□
Founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1898□
Polish and Irish immigrants mainly -- eventually Hispanic□
Classes such as English (as a second language), skills courses,
arts and labor
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Saturday Evening Girls' Club
Paul revere pottery□
Program aimed at immigrant women of Irish, Italian, and
Eastern European heritage
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Provided participants with practical skills and earn money□
Founders worked to Americanize participants□
Held on Saturday evenings to keep the girls off the streets and
assimilate them into American life
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Rabbit Bowl/Decorated Bowls
Largest money maker for the S.E.G.
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Custom sets of children's tablewares and dish sets
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Vase
Newcomb College Pottery
Co-ed, men throwing the pottery forms and women
handle decoration
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Same concepts as the S.E.G.
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Heavily influenced by nature
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New Orleans
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iClicker: what was one major difference between the American A&C
movement and the British A&C movement?
American designers were more heavily invested in landscape
as inspiration as they did not draw from European revivalism
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Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock NY
Art colony□
Utopian community□
Self-sufficient□
Linen Press
Oak, tulip poplar, brass
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Landscape painting, placed on objects□
Connection between nature and objects produced□
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Roycroft Community in East Aurora, NY
Big on the idea of self-sufficiency□
Form presses to print their own books□
Had their own marching band, baseball team, etc.□
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Hollyhock House in LA
Total Work of Art: □
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George Ohr
Influential American ceramist□
Eccentric person□
People hated his art□
Crushed and repulsive form pottery□
Bright and vivid colors□
Very different from anything else going on at his time□
Studio potter who did everything himself from start to finish□
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Lecture 5: Revivalism - The Arts & Crafts Movement
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 10:29 AM
Document Summary
Lecture 5: revivalism - the arts & crafts movement. The idea of goods being made by hand through skilled labor has become a value in american culture. Controls entire process of making start to finish. Craftsperson designs a single object, which is then made by others in a factory setting. Joseph wright of derby the blacksmith"s shop 1771. Joseph paxton interior of the crystal palace 1851. Considered a high-quality chintz of mid 19th century britain. Geometric and abstract design seen as superior to british design. The indian designs looked more superior than british design. Founder of the arts & crafts movement which spread from britain to the us and throughout europe. Influenced by medieval guild system, sought to revive it, which would transfer power from owner to worker. Making things by hand could transform the labor force: useful and sense of pride in work, instead of replaceable. Imperial federation map showing the extent of the british empire.
