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Alphabetical listing of architects, artists, and Artisans in America from 1860-1920 accompanied by biographical sketches and photographs
Ecclesiastical Art History Reference with photos and biographical sketches
Ecclesiastical Architects, Artists, and Artisans in America: 1860-1920
Anti-commercial and anti-modern, the California Arts and Crafts Movement drew upon the decorative schemes of English Tudor, Swiss chalet, Japanese temple, and Spanish mission, evoking an earlier time before modern industry and technology intruded. This book celebrates the Movement with chapters on architects such as Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, John Galen Howard, and Julia Morgan. 365 duotone photos.
H. Langford Warren (1857-1917) was an important link in the chain of individuals who contributed to the architectural practice, theories of design, and the teaching of architectural history in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Best known in the Boston area, Warren first worked under the renowned architect Henry Hobson Richardson before establishing his own practice. Friends and colleagues during this period included Charles Eliot Norton, the noted art historian, and Harvard's Charles Herbert Moore, a leading Ruskinian painter. Hired by Harvard University in 1893, Warren developed its architectural curriculum. In 1897 he helped found Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts. At the time of his death in 1917, Warren was Dean of the School of Architecture at Harvard and President of the Society of Arts and Crafts. At the turn of the century, Warren's philosophical vision offered a conservative and ethnocentric perspective attractive to many Bostonians and to a significant segment of Americans nationwide. According to this view, English culture was the basis of American culture. Through his work at Harvard and in the Arts and Crafts movement, he articulated and promoted an aesthetic guided by an attachment to the past, and he encouraged his students at Harvard to revive and reinterpret English and Anglo-American models. Another characteristic of Warren's aesthetic was "restraint," a quality generally attributed to the region's Puritan settlers. "Restraint" also meant a rejection of both the lavish ornamentation of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the more original styles such as Art Nouveau that were emerging at the turn of the century. Following the ideals of John Ruskin, William Morris, and later leaders of the English Arts and Crafts movement, Warren and his architect-colleagues promoted a close collaboration with the craftsmen who enhanced their buildings. The resulting building designs represent a significant contribution to the development of American Arts and Crafts architecture, complementing the proto-modern work of designers such as Frank Lloyd Wright. In fact, Arts and Crafts architecture in North America was extremely diverse. Meister examines the greater complexity of this architecture by exploring the eclectic historicism of Warren, a key figure in the movement that was centered in Boston.
This guide to selecting appropriate materials and shaping them into useful, aesthetically pleasing forms answers many questions about design choices, from basic to specific, with clear, condensed, and practical directions. Numerous illustrations.
Imagine visiting the greatest works of Maybeck, Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Green and Green. Across the country, there are hundreds of places to see classic examples of Arts and Crafts architecture, furniture, and art. The first guidebook of its kind, Arts & Crafts Design in America leads the way to the best of them. Including 250 detailed entries and illustrated with photographs throughout, this unique travel companion describes bungalows and other sites open to the public, noteworthy Arts and Crafts buildings that can be toured or viewed from the street, and museum collections of whole-room interiors and exceptional objects. In addition to listings helpfully organized by state, the authors offer a useful resources section and a general introduction for newcomers to the movement. For enthusiasts, travelers, and collectors, Arts & Crafts Design in America is a captivating tour of this enduring style born abroad but embraced throughout the country.
An account of the lives, theories and work of the architects of the Arts and Crafts movement which began in England and quickly influenced Europe and America. It shows how the ideas of the movement influenced the California and Prairie Schools as well as Art Nouveau. Second edition, originally published in 1995.