Arts and Crafts movement

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The Arts and Crafts movement was a late 19th- and early 20th-century design and social reform movement that championed traditional craftsmanship, simple forms, and the use of natural materials as a reaction against industrial mass production.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement
design movement
social reform movement
aimedAt improving design quality of everyday objects
raising status of decorative arts
reforming working conditions for craftsmen
associatedConcept anti-industrialism
domestic reform through design
guild socialism
truth to materials
unity of art and labor
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
endTime early 20th century
field architecture
book design
ceramics
decorative arts
furniture design
graphic design
interior design
metalwork
textile design
geographicSpread Austria
Canada
Germany
Japan
Scandinavia
United States of America
surface form: United States
hasKeyFigure C. R. Ashbee
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Voysey
Gustav Stickley
John Ruskin
M. H. Baillie Scott
May Morris
C. R. Ashbee
surface form: Philip Webb

Walter Crane
William Morris
hasKeyOrganization Art Workers Guild
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
surface form: Guild and School of Handicraft

Morris & Co.
hasMainCharacteristic emphasis on traditional craftsmanship
handmade production
honesty of materials and construction
integration of art and everyday life
medievalist and vernacular inspirations
preference for simple forms
reaction against industrial mass production
rejection of excessive ornamentation
social idealism
use of natural materials
influenced 20th-century design reform
American Craftsman style
Art Nouveau
Modernism
Prairie School
Scandinavian design
influencedBy Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
surface form: Augustus Pugin

Gothic Revival
John Ruskin
medieval guild system
pre-industrial craftsmanship
romanticism
startTime late 19th century

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Queen’s Cross Church, Glasgow architecturalStyle Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Scottish Arts and Crafts
The Four (Glasgow Style group) influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Spirella Building architecturalStyle Arts and Crafts movement
T. J. Cobden-Sanderson movement Arts and Crafts movement
Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden movement Arts and Crafts movement
Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: British Arts and Crafts movement
Rose Valley, Pennsylvania knownFor Arts and Crafts movement
Rose Valley, Pennsylvania hasArchitecturalStyle Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts architecture
Rose Valley, Pennsylvania associatedWithMovement Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts movement in America
Eastlake style influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Bedford Park garden suburb houses influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Lowther Lodge architecturalStyle Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts
British architecture notableStyle Arts and Crafts movement
Wiener Werkstätte movement Arts and Crafts movement
Wiener Werkstätte inspiredBy Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: British Arts and Crafts movement
Ver Sacrum influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement