C.R. Ashbee : architect, designer & romantic socialist / Alan Crawford.

Main entry:

Crawford, Alan, 1943- author.

Title & Author:

C.R. Ashbee : architect, designer & romantic socialist / Alan Crawford.

Edition:

Second edition.

Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2005.

Description:

499 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 1985.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-464) and index.
Cities of youth and thought 1863-1886 -- East London 1886-1891 -- The nineties 1891-1897 -- Success 1897-1902 -- The Cotswolds 1902-1908 -- Where the great city stands 1908-1918 -- Jerusalem 1919-1922 -- In a Kentish garden 1923-1942 -- The elements of design -- Architecture -- Furniture and interior decoration -- Metalwork -- Jewellery -- The Essex House Press -- Reputation and influence -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"Charles Robert Ashbee - architect, designer, social reformer and a major force behind the arts and crafts movement - was one of the most significant figures in British artistic and cultural life at the turn of the last century. Inspired by the Romantic anti-industrialism of John Ruskin and William Morris, Ashbee started a small craft workshop in the East End of London in 1888 called the Guild of Handicraft; he not only made it a place where work could be satisfying and creative but in 1902, in the boldest gesture of his career, he moved the Guild's workshops out to the idyllic Cotswold town of Chipping Campden.
Utilising the often vivid journals kept by Ashbee and his wife Janet, Alan Crawford documents Ashbee's life and work, the story of the Guild and the part Ashbee played in reform movements that ranged from the conservation of historic buildings to early town planning."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300109393 (pbk.)
9780300109399 (pbk.)

Subject:

Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942.
Guild of Handicraft (London, England)
Artists England Biography.
Arts and crafts movement England.
Artistes Angleterre Biographies.
Arts and crafts movement Angleterre.
Artists.
Arts and crafts movement.
England.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237773
Call No.: BIB 167621
Status: Available

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