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Elizabeth Cumming - Hand, Heart & Soul (2nd Hand Softback)
ISBN / GTIN-13 : 9781841586106
Synopsis
Subtitled : The Arts & Crafts Movement in Scotland.
This book for the first time provides a national context for the work of Margaret Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer and Phoebe Anna Traquair and many new names that emerged from the shadows.
Various chapters look at public art, concepts of tradition, the rise of independent professional women designers, domestic and church buildings, the role of craft within communities, and how Arts and Crafts was finally transformed in the age of Modernism.
Arts and Crafts artist-designers changed the lives of Scots. Through the furnishing of public buildings, exhibitions, church craft and home design, they aimed to restore beauty to everyday experience. They worked in diverse fields such as furniture, textiles, jewellery and metalwork, glass, ceramics, mural decoration and architectural design and crafts.
Theirs is a narrative of close networks of families and friends, men and women, designers and industrialists dedicated to the rights of the individual and to the proper place of art within modern society. It is a remarkable and often inspiring story of ideals, commitment - and imagination. Scottish Arts and Crafts brought together British design practice with the romance of tradition.
Details
- Format : Large, Square 2nd Hand Softback with French Fold Sleeves
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - Architecture, Design & Engineering
- Published : 2006 (Birlinn - 1st Edition)
- ISBN : 9781841586106
- SKU : B002843
- PPC : SP1500gm
- RRP : £16.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
245x250mm. 240pp. First Paper Edition. Soft Cover with French Fold Sleeves. Colour plates.
External Reviews
"An invaluable addition to the bibliography of Scottish Art" - Duncan MacMillan.
The Author
Elizabeth Cumming is a historian of Scottish art and design. She was a junior researcher on a national survey of Pictish symbol stones before spending twelve years as a fine art curator in Dundee and in Edinburgh where she was the first curator of the present City Art Centre. Research on the artist Phoebe Anna Traquair led to an invitation to write the World of Art series book on the Arts and Crafts Movement and to teaching design history at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1990s. She was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow from 2000 to 2015 and an Honorary Fellow at this university from 2008 to 2019 before her current appointment. Throughout her career she has served on art and craft panels and is currently a trustee of the Mansfield Traquair Trust, the Scottish Stained Glass Trust and the Lorimer Society.
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