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The arts and crafts movement in California : living the good life / [edited by] Kenneth R. Trapp ; with essays by Leslie Greene Bowman [and others].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Oakland, Calif. : Oakland Museum ; New York : Abbeville Press, ©1993.Edition: 1st editionDescription: 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1558593934
  • 9781558593930
  • 1558594930
  • 9781558594937
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 745/.09794/09034 20
LOC classification:
  • NK1141 .A78 1993
Other classification:
  • 21.81
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
"Divine excellence" : the arts and crafts life in California / Richard Guy Wilson -- The arts and crafts garden in California / David C. Streatfield -- Utopian place making : the built environment in arts and crafts California / Karen J. Weitze -- The resort to the rustic : simple living and the California bungalow / Cheryl Robertson -- Creating beauty from the earth : the tiles of California / Joseph A. Taylor -- The arts and crafts movement in the San Francisco Bay area / Kenneth R. Trapp -- The arts and crafts movement in the southland / Leslie Greene Bowman -- The arts and crafts movement in San Diego / Bruce Kamerling -- The arts and crafts after 1918 : ending and legacy / Richard Guy Wilson.
Summary: "The best work in Arts and Crafts in America is already being produced on the Pacific Coast," proclaimed the English designer Charles R. Ashbee during a visit to the Bay Area in 1909. The accuracy of his praise is made vividly clear by this handsome publication, whiCh celebrates the beauty, skill, variety, and exuberance of the Arts and Crafts objects and architecture created in California during a brief but intensely prolific period between about 1895 and 1930. Inspired.Summary: By the state's spectacular scenery, by its distinctive flora and fauna, and by its romantic past, the artists and artisans of California produced a unique variant of the Arts and Crafts movement. This ground-breaking book - which accompanies a major exhibition organized by The Oakland Museum - takes as its starting point the movement's ideal of "the good life," in which the virtues of simple living and high thinking were complemented by material well-being. Enlightening.Summary: And entertaining essays by eight astute scholars present new information and insights about Arts and Crafts architecture and urban planning, garden design, interiors and resorts, tiles, pottery, metalwork, and furniture. Thoughtful introductory and closing essays analyze the movement and its visual and conceptual legacies in the context of that beguilingly idealistic era. Concluding the book are information-rich endnotes and a carefully focused bibliography, plus.Summary: Extensive artists' biographies and company histories that will be of particular interest to both scholars and collectors.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) NK 1141 .A78 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 80687

"Exhibition itinerary: The Oakland Museum, February 27-August 15, 1993, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 8, 1993-January 9, 1994, Cincinnati Art Museum, February 18-April 17, 1994"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296) and index.

"Divine excellence" : the arts and crafts life in California / Richard Guy Wilson -- The arts and crafts garden in California / David C. Streatfield -- Utopian place making : the built environment in arts and crafts California / Karen J. Weitze -- The resort to the rustic : simple living and the California bungalow / Cheryl Robertson -- Creating beauty from the earth : the tiles of California / Joseph A. Taylor -- The arts and crafts movement in the San Francisco Bay area / Kenneth R. Trapp -- The arts and crafts movement in the southland / Leslie Greene Bowman -- The arts and crafts movement in San Diego / Bruce Kamerling -- The arts and crafts after 1918 : ending and legacy / Richard Guy Wilson.

"The best work in Arts and Crafts in America is already being produced on the Pacific Coast," proclaimed the English designer Charles R. Ashbee during a visit to the Bay Area in 1909. The accuracy of his praise is made vividly clear by this handsome publication, whiCh celebrates the beauty, skill, variety, and exuberance of the Arts and Crafts objects and architecture created in California during a brief but intensely prolific period between about 1895 and 1930. Inspired.

By the state's spectacular scenery, by its distinctive flora and fauna, and by its romantic past, the artists and artisans of California produced a unique variant of the Arts and Crafts movement. This ground-breaking book - which accompanies a major exhibition organized by The Oakland Museum - takes as its starting point the movement's ideal of "the good life," in which the virtues of simple living and high thinking were complemented by material well-being. Enlightening.

And entertaining essays by eight astute scholars present new information and insights about Arts and Crafts architecture and urban planning, garden design, interiors and resorts, tiles, pottery, metalwork, and furniture. Thoughtful introductory and closing essays analyze the movement and its visual and conceptual legacies in the context of that beguilingly idealistic era. Concluding the book are information-rich endnotes and a carefully focused bibliography, plus.

Extensive artists' biographies and company histories that will be of particular interest to both scholars and collectors.

Also issued online.

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