Hand, Heart and Soul
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland
Published on 17. September 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-84158-610-6 (ISBN)
Description
Arts and Crafts artist-designers changed the lives of Scots. Through the furnishing of public buildings, exhibitions, church craft and home design, they aimed to restore beauty to everyday experience. They worked in diverse fields such as furniture, textiles, jewellery and metalwork, glass, ceramics, mural decoration and architectural design and crafts. Theirs is a narrative of close networks of families and friends, men and women, designers and industrialists dedicated to the rights of the individual and to the proper place of art within modern society. It is a remarkable and often inspiring story of ideals, commitment - and imagination. Scottish Arts and Crafts brought together British design practice with the romance of tradition. This book for the first time provides a national context for the work of Margaret Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer, Phoebe Anna Traquair, and many new names that emerge from the shadows.
Reviews / Votes
'an invaluable addition to the bibliography of Scottish art' -- Duncan Macmillan 'an important book, demystifying the work of one of the richest periods of Scottish art' * Sunday Herald * 'a cultural and historical tour de force' * Scottish Art News *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
Illustrations
colour and b&wthroughout
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 246 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1152 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84158-610-6 (9781841586106)
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Person
Elizabeth Cumming is a graduate of Edinburgh University. She was initially a curator of fine art in Dundee and in Edinburgh, where she was Keeper of the City Art Centre, but her interests widened while researching her doctoral thesis in the early 1980s on the pioneer Arts and Crafts artist Phoebe Anna Traquair, whose work she has since championed. Her exhibitions included Glasgow 1900: Art & Design at the Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh in Amsterdam in 1992. Since 2000, when appointed an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow University, she has worked as an independent art and design historian.