The substance of style : perspectives on the American arts and crafts movement / edited by Bert Denker.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Denker, Bert, 1946- editor.

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, publisher.

University Press of New England, distributor.

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

Conference Name:

Winterthur Conference (1990)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and crafts movement--United States.

Arts and crafts movement.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

viii, 469 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England.

Place of Publication:

Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1996.

Summary:

In twenty-three separate essays by prominent museum curators, educators, collectors, and scholars, the complex aspects of the American arts and crafts movement are examined: national and international style and ideology; industrial design; redefinition of craft traditions, unification of the fine and decorative arts; and community visions. New discoveries in objects, photographs, and rare prints and manuscripts illustrate the text.

Contents:

Introduction / Bert Denker

The Search for Vernacular Expression: The Arts and Crafts Movements in America and Ireland / Nicola Gordon Bowe

The Influence of C.R. Ashbee and His Guild of Handicraft on American Silver, Other Metalwork, and Jewelry / W. Scott Braznell

Frans Hals to Windmills: The Arts and Crafts Fascination with the Culture of the Low Countries / Kathleen Eagen Johnson

Aesthetics and Meanings: The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Revival of American Indian Basketry / Melanie Herzog

Arts and Crafts in the Santa Fe Style / Lonn Taylor

"One Who Has Seen More and Knows More". The Design Critic and the Arts and Crafts / Beverly K. Brandt

"The Distinction of Being Different": Joseph P. McHugh and the American Arts and Crafts Movement / Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio

Maturity of Design and Commercial Success: A Critical Reassessment of the Work of L. and J.G. Stickley and Peter Hansen / Donald A. Davidoff.

Notes:

Papers from the 1990 Wintherthur Conference.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has invoice laid in. Also, a typed letter from Vilain to a curator. Dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0912724331

9780912724331

OCLC:

33047659