Publication Date: 28/01/2021 ISBN: 9781848224513 Category:

Arts and Crafts Pioneers

Stuart Evans, Jean Liddiard

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Publication Date: 28/01/2021 ISBN: 9781848224513 Category:
Hardback

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Surveying for the first time the
Century Guild of Artists and its influential periodical, the Century
Guild Hobby Horse, this original publication asserts the significance of the Guild in the development of the Arts and Crafts movement and its modernist successors.

The founders of the Century Guild – architect Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and his 18-year-old
assistant Herbert Percy Horne (afterwards joined by the artist and poet Selwyn
Image) – were driven by the ambition to
answer John Ruskin’s radical call to regenerate art and society. Motivated by the concept of ‘the Unity of Art’, the Guild embraced a spectrum of arts which included architecture, painting,
sculpture, metalwork, textiles and stained glass. It also reached out to music
and literature, aiming to educate its public in practical form.

Skilfully weaving chronology with the impressive artistic achievements of the collective, the authors also draw out the lively personalities of each of the protagonists and their wider circle. For anyone fascinated by the Arts and Crafts movement, this is essential reading.

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