Love, Marriage, and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Autor Felicity Ashbee Alan Crawforden Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2002
C. R. Ashbee was, some would say, the key man in the British Arts and Crafts movement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Regarded as heir to William Morris in political belief and design reform, Ashbee (and his Guild of Handicraft) gained international fame in his own time and remains a legend today. While much has been written about him, little has been said of his wife. Now Felicity Ashbee breaks the silence in a compelling book about her mother.
The book depicts Janet Ashbee as a gifted woman of emotional warmth, strength, and unconventionality, all of which enhanced her husband's work. An accomplished writer and thinker in her own right, Janet Ashbee's life revolved around great historic issues that still resonate today: the socially conscious Arts and Crafts movement, the role of women in contemporary affairs, and embattled ethnic relationships in the Middle East -- not to mention marriage and sexual orientation, predicated upon her husband's vibrant and well-known homosexuality.
A book of rare insight and significance, Janet Ashbee sheds welcome light on the Arts and Crafts movement and on women in oft-romanticized Victorian and Edwardian British culture.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0815607318
Pagini: 245
Dimensiuni: 164 x 246 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Syracuse University Press
Notă biografică
Felicity Ashbee is the author of scholarly articles in art history and nineteenth and twentieth-century material culture. She is eighty-eight years old and this is her first full-length book.
Alan Crawford is the author of C. R. Ashbee, Architect, Designer and Romantic Socialist.