Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland

by Elizabeth Cumming

Hand, Heart and Soul examines one of Scotland's most important artistic movements. It looks at public art, concepts of tradition, the rise of independent professional women designers, domestic and church buildings, the role of craft within communities, and how arts and crafts was transformed in the age of modernism.

The book for the first time provides a national context for the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Phoebe Anna Traquair.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

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.