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Apostles of beauty : arts and crafts from Britain to Chicago / edited by Judith A. Barter ; with essays by Judith A. Barter ... [et al.].

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Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2009.

Arts and crafts movement -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.

Arts and crafts movement -- United States -- Exhibitions.

9780300141139 (hbk.) :

207 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

British historicism and the road to modernism / Judith A. Barter -- The spell of Japan was upon them : Japanism and the arts and crafts movement / Ellen E. Roberts -- "To promote and to extend the principles established by Morris" : Elbert Hubbard, Gustav Stickley, and the redefinition of American arts and crafts / Brandon K. Ruud -- "A new and living spirit" : pictorialist principles and the arts and crafts movement / Sarah E. Kelly -- Chicago : a bridge to the future / Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski -- Illustrated checklist.

The Arts and Crafts movement in architecture, interior design and decorative arts reached its peak between 1880 and 1910 in Britain and North America. This text presents outstanding examples by the movement's British orginators, including William Morris, as well as its greatest American practitioners, including Frank Lloyd Wright.

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