"The art that is life" : the arts & crafts movement in America, 1875-1920, by Wendy Kaplan ; with contributions by Eileen Boris [and others]

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"The art that is life" : the arts & crafts movement in America, 1875-1920, by Wendy Kaplan ; with contributions by Eileen Boris [and others]

Title remainder

the arts & crafts movement in America, 1875-1920

Statement of responsibility

by Wendy Kaplan ; with contributions by Eileen Boris [and others]

Instantiates

• "The art that is life" : the arts & crafts movement in America, 1875-1920

Publication

• Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1987

Copyright

• ©1987

Note

• On t.p.: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• "A New York Graphic Society book."
• "Exhibition dates: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 4-May 31, 1987; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 16-November 1, 1987; Detroit Institute of Arts, December 9, 1987-February 28, 1988; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, April 5-June 26, 1988"--Title page verso
• Includes index

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• Introd. : origins of the movement
• The lamp of British precedent : an introd. to the arts and crafts movement / Wendy Kaplan
• Reform in aesthetics : the search for an American identity
• Arts and crafts : matters of style / Robert Judson Clark and Wendy Kaplan -- American arts and crafts architecture : radical though dedicated to the cause conservative / Richard Guy Wilson
• Looking abroad : Medieval and Queen Anne influences -- Oriental influences -- Art Nouveau -- Progressive design
• Looking at home : Native American -- Colonial Revivial -- California -- Prairie
• 'Dreams of brotherhood and beauty' : the social ideas of the arts and crafts movement / Eileen Boris -- The art of work / Robert Edwardss
• Furniture -- Ceramics -- Metals -- Books
• Spreading the reform ideal
• Spreading the crafts : the role of the schools / Wendy Kaplan
• Reform of the home
• House and home in the arts and crafts era : reforms for simpler living / Cheryl Robertson -- A more reasonable way to dress / Ssally Buchanan Kinsey
• The middle-class house -- The bungalow -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- George Washington Maher -- Greene and Greene

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ocm15303372

Dimensions

25 cm.

Extent

xiv, 410 pages

Isbn

9780878462780

Lccn

86063192

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

illustrations (some color)

Record ID

u2844251

System control number

(OCoLC)15303372