Arts and Crafts Pioneers is the first major study of the Century Guild of Artists and its influential journal, The Century Guild Hobby Horse. Founded by Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and Herbert Percy Horne, and joined by artist and poet Selwyn Image, the Guild pursued John Ruskin's call to unite art, craft and social reform.
The authors combine the Guild's lively history with its achievements across architecture, furniture, textiles, stained glass, metalwork, painting, literature and music. Connections with figures including Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti and W.B. Yeats reveal its place at the centre of late-Victorian culture, while its experimental approach helps explain its influence on Art Nouveau and modernism. Essential reading for anyone fascinated by the Arts and Crafts movement.
Product details
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 224
- Dimensions: 228 x 270 mm
- Illustrations: 55 colour and 97 black-and-white illustrations
- Publication date: 15 February 2021