Art and labor : Ruskin, Morris, and the craftsman ideal in America / Eileen Boris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boris, Eileen, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Temple University Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

American civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900--Influence.

Ruskin, John.

Morris, William, 1834-1896--Influence.

Morris, William.

Morris, William, 1834-1896.

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

Arts and crafts movement--United States.

Arts and crafts movement.

United States.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Local Subjects:

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 261 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1986.

Summary:

Eileen Boris explores the ways in which the Arts and Crafts Movement was related to the trends of its time. She both describes the leading participants and puts the movement into a new and larger context that involves labor as well as art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-247) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift: Mr. & Mrs. F. Keyes, 1990.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust jacket. Laid in are an article from a magazine, a flight boarding pass, a small booklet, and two photocopied calendar pages

ISBN:

087722384X

9780877223849

087722563X

9780877225638

OCLC:

11915380