The Arts and Crafts Movement

World of Art

by Elizabeth Cumming, Wendy Kaplan

This volume surveys the highly influential Arts and Crafts design movement – which embraced architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and books – in Britain, America and Europe. Although the styles adopted by the movement were diverse, its leading architects, artists and craft–designers, including William Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Josef Hoffman and Eliel Saarinen, were united in promoting the moral superiority of "honest" design and natural materials in an industrial age.

Genres: Art, Art History, Architecture, Nonfiction, History, Design

216 pages, Paperback

First published May 13, 1991

About the author

Elizabeth Cumming is a graduate of Edinburgh University and a former keeper of the City Art Centre, Edinburgh. During the 1990s she taught design history at Edinburgh College of Art, while continuing to pursue freelance curatorship internationally. Her exhibitions have included Glasgow 1900: Art & Design at the Van Gogh Museum, 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.

In 2020 Cumming was appointed an Honorary Professor of Art at the University of Edinburgh.

Reviews

[Marco · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good book and well written. It answered a few questions I had and reinforced some concepts I already knew. It can get quite technical at times, it's definitely a niche product for the Arts and Crafts enthusiast.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent introduction, well illustrated. Recommended for anyone who would like to learn more about the Arts & Crafts movement but isn't sure where to start.

[Gary]

One of my wife's art school textbooks. Interesting for local history as well as some faint comparisons to the software industry.

[Haseeb]

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