Overview
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Learn about the history of the Arts and Crafts movement, including leading designers such as William Morris and Gustav Stickley, and its influences on contemporary design.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- The Industrial Revolution
- Victorian excess
- Gothic Revival
- "The Grammar of Ornament"
- The Pre-Raphaelites
- Social issues
- The Art and Crafts movement's beginnings
- Gesamtkunstwerk: Total work of art
- Morris & Co.
- The Kelmscott Press
- Small presses: Bookmaking
- Architecture
- Textiles and patterns
- Gustav Stickley and American Arts and Crafts
- Glass and lighting: Morris and Tiffany
- Typography
- Julia Morgan
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Bruce Rogers
- Frederic Goudy
- Will Bradley
- The evolution of the Arts and Crafts movement
- Influence on contemporary graphic design
- Recap
