Essential Arts and Crafts
Published on 21. February 2005
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-1-85177-447-0 (ISBN)
Description
This attractive small format book highlights the key characteristics of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, Europe, America and Japan and shows how its ideas were disseminated around the world. It showcases the best of the furniture, jewellery, silver and textiles from different continents, and puts these in the context of the architecture and interiors of the time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
V & A Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 197 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85177-447-0 (9781851774470)
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Person
Karen Livingstone is Curator of the exhibition International Arts and Crafts, and a Research Fellow at the V&A. She is editor with Linda Parry of International Arts and Crafts (2005) and has contributed to several publications, inlcuding Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain 1500-1900 (2001) and the Persistence of Craft (2002).