Title & Author:

Inspiring reform : Boston's arts and crafts movement / Marilee Boyd Meyer, consulting curator ; essays by David Acton [and others].

Publication:

Wellesley, Mass. : Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College ; New York : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

Description:

247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Feb. 28-July 14, 1997, and at the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Mar. 6-July 6, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Talking or working : the conundrum of moral aesthetics in Boston's arts and crafts movement / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- "All workmen, artists, and lovers of art" : the organizational structure of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston / Beverly K. Brandt -- The aesthetics of craftsmanship and the prestige of the past : Boston furniture-making and wood-carving / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- The potter's art in Boston : individuality and expression / Susan J. Montgomery -- Circles of influence : metalsmithing in New England / Jeannine Falino -- Historic interpretations : Boston's arts and crafts jewelry / Marilee Boyd Meyer -- Boston and the Society of Arts and Crafts : textiles / Nicola J. Shilliam -- A millennium in book-making : the book arts in Boston / Nancy Finlay -- Pictorialism and naturalism in New England photography / Anne E. Havinga -- The flourish of color relief printmaking in New England / David Acton.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

1881894088 (Davis Museum)
9781881894087 (Davis Museum)
0810963418 (Abrams)
9780810963412 (Abrams)

Subject:

Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, Mass.)
Arts and crafts movement Massachusetts Boston Exhibitions.
Decorative arts Massachusetts Boston Exhibitions.
Arts and crafts movement Massachusetts Boston Expositions.
Arts décoratifs Massachusetts Boston Expositions.
Arts and crafts movement
Decorative arts
Ausstellung
Arts and Crafts.
Kunstnijverheid.
Wellesley (Mass., 1997)
Boston, Mass. Angewandte Kunst Geschichte 1900,ca.
USA Angewandte Kunst Geschichte 1900,ca. Ausstellung.
Massachusetts Boston
Boston, Mass.

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Wellesley (Mass.) 1997.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Meyer, Marilee Boyd.
Acton, David, 1953-
Davis Museum and Cultural Center.
Renwick Gallery.

Inspiring Boston's arts and crafts movement reform

Holdings:

Location: Library main 128161
Call No.: ID NK1141.I57; ID:97-B1541
Status: Available