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The Ideal home 1900-1920 : the history of twentieth-century American craft

Title
The Ideal home 1900-1920 : the history of twentieth-century American craft / Janet Kardon, editor ; with essays by Eileen Boris [and others].
Publication
New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the American Craft, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Kardon, Janet.
Description
304 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm.
Summary
A historical survey of crafts in America. The book begins the story by looking at the American Arts and Crafts Movement as first seen in the domestic environment during the early years of this century. It presents an array of wood furniture, stained glass, ceramics, jewellery, embroidered textiles and silver and iron objects. Included are works by such masters as furniture maker Gustav Stickley and ceramist Adelaide Alsop Robineau, silversmiths Robert Jarvie and George Washington Maher, glass artists Frederick Carder and Louis Comfort Tiffany, architects Frank Lloyd Wright and the Greene brothers and many more. Many of the pieces were photographed especially for this book. Essays by noted experts in the field discuss particular crafts and illuminate the broader social and cultural implications of the American Arts and Crafts Movement.
Series Statement
The history of twentieth-century American craft
Uniform Title
History of twentieth-century American craft.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Arts and crafts movement > United States
  • Decorative arts > United States > History > 20th century
  • Interior decoration > United States > History > 20th century
  • Arts and crafts movement > United States > Exhibitions
  • Decorative arts > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Interior decoration > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Arts and crafts movement
  • Decorative arts
  • Interior decoration
  • Kunstnijverheid
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-290) and index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and index.
Contents
American Craft Museum Board of Governors -- Acknowledgments / Janet Kardon -- A Centenary Project: Stage One -- The Home as Ideological Platform / Janet Kardon -- Starting from Home: Twentieth-Century American Craft in Perspective / John Perreault -- Crossing Boundaries: The Gendered Meaning of the Arts and Crafts / Eileen Boris -- The Critic and the Evolution of Early Twentieth-Century American Craft / Beverly K. Brandt -- Metalsmithing and Jewelrymaking, 1900-1920 / W. Scott Braznell -- Arts and Crafts Furniture: Process or Product? / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- Ceramics: Seeking a Personal Style / Elaine Levin -- Colored Light: Glass, 1900-1920 / Linda M. Papanicolaou -- Textiles: As Documented by The Craftsman / Christa C. Mayer Thurman -- The Arts and Crafts in American Houses and Gardens / James D. Kornwolf -- William Price's Arts and Crafts Colony at Rose Valley, Pennsylvania / George E. Thomas -- Catalogue of the Exhibition. Artists' Biographies. Communities. Exhibitions. Guilds and Societies. Periodicals. Production Centers: Ceramics. Glass. Metals. Textiles. Wood. General. Schools. Settlement Houses. Small Presses.
ISBN
  • 0810934671
  • 9780810934672
LCCN
93003121
OCLC
  • ocm27678897
  • 27678897
  • SCSB-1999777
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library