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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Alan, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942.

Ashbee, C. R.

Guild of Handicraft (London, England).

Artists--England--Biography.

Artists.

England.

Arts and crafts movement--England.

Arts and crafts movement.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

499 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

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

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 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 boldly moved the Guild' s workshops out to the idyllic Cotswold town of Chipping Campden. Utilizing the often vivid journals kept by Ashbee and his wife, Janet, the book documents Ashbee' s life and work, the story of the Guild, and the part Ashbee played in a wide range of reform movements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-464) and index.

ISBN:

0300109393

OCLC:

57529149