The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe & America: Design for the Modern World, 1880-1920

New York and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1994. Cloth, 327 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 27 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "At the turn of the last century, the Arts and Crafts movement transformed not only how objects looked but also how people looked at objects. It provided a framework for essential issues that are still debated today: the conflict between standardization and individuality, the question of whether a one-of-a-kind handcrafted object is superior to a mass-produced one, and the problem of defining what kind of design most benefits society. With more than 300 objects - furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and works on paper - from England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, France, and the United States, this is a visually stunning, definitive survey. The book features masterworks by the best-known designers of the period, such as William Morris, M. H. Baillie Scott, Henry Van de Velde, Peter Behrens, Josef Hoffmann, Eliel Saarinen, Gustav Stickley, Greene and Greene, and Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as lesser-known examples that have never been displayed together before." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Design for the modern world, by Wendy Kaplan; United Kingdom: origins and first flowering, by Alan Crawford; Germany: a new culture of things, by Ru diger Joppien; Austria: idealism or realism, by Christian Witt-Do rring; Hungary: shaping a national consciousness, by Juliet Kinchin; Scandinavia: "beauty for all", by Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark; Belgium and France: arts, crafts, and decorative arts, by Amy F. Ogata; America: the quest for democratic design, by Wendy Kaplan.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.