The Rise of Everyday Design: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America
Presented by Harry Ransom Center
Description
The Rise of Everyday Design: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America
The Arts and Crafts movement occupied a central place in discussions about modern life in Britain and America from the late 1840s to the early 1920s and beyond. Arts and Crafts reformers were concerned with the daily realities of the industrial age and used design to envision and promote a new and improved way of living. Discover how theorists and makers—like John Ruskin and William Morris (along with lesser-known figures like Lucy Crane) in Britain and Candace Wheeler, Alice and Elbert Hubbard, and Gustav Stickley in America—spread their ideas through books, retail showrooms, and world’s fairs, and how Arts and Crafts objects, which were originally handmade and costly, came to be manufactured and sold to the everyday consumer.
Opens: Feb. 9, 2019
Closes: July 14, 2019
To make special arrangements for your course, contact:
Lisa Pulsifer, Head of Education and Public Engagement
lisapulsifer@austin.utexas.edu
512-475-8086
Date and Time
Location
Harry Ransom Center 300 West 21st Street Austin Texas 78712