CCS Notes (17-10)

The Arts and Crafts movement

- Ditchling museum of art + craft

- The unknown craftsman

- William Morris (1842-1896)

- Led the arts and crafts movement in Britain

- Victorian area

- Industrial expansion

- British colonial empire

- The great exhibition of 1951 was a showcase of industry and technology from across the British empire and beyond

- the exhibition was a big deal

- William Morris refused to step a foot in the exhibition

- Critical of industrial revolution

- Wasn’t anti machine

- Wanted the things to be well made

- The arts and crafts movement was influenced by John ruskin’s witting notably his essay “the nature of gothic” published in 1953

- “Do what you can, and confess frankly what you are unable to do; neither let your efforts be shortened for fear of failure, nor your confession silenced for fear of shame”

- John ruskin “the Nature of gothic” (1853)

- William Morris and John Ruskin

- Key character

- 1887 first time “arts and craft” word was used

- Morris designed this serif font “golden type”, inspired by Italian Nicolas Jenson (1420-1480)

- William Morris was inspired by the medieval arts and replicated the harmony between text and image, the use of motifs inspired by nature and the use of detailed patterns.

- Impacted graphic design

- In response of the industrialization

- the use of gothic style was highly political

- William Morris and Walter crane influenced the first wave feminist designer Sylvia Pankhurst

- Medieval influence

- Other artists:

- Bernad Leach

- Soetsu Yanagi

- The William Morris of Japan

- Shoji Hamada

- Eric Gill

- Sans Serif

- Girl in Bath II

- The model for which was his daughter Petra

- Ethel M. Mairet

- Dyes

- Photograph différent craft practices

- Gandhi

- Spinning and weaving became elevated to an ideology for self reliance and self governance thought the Indian independence movement led y Gandhi

- Gustav Stickley

- America

- Believe in simple democrat art

- The craftsman (magazine)

- Where DIY began