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- Arts & Crafts movement in America
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Personal
- Name Part
- Emlen, Robert P.
- Role
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- John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
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- sponsor
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- text
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- syllabi
- Origin Information
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- Fall 2016
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- 2016-09
- Language
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- eng
- Physical Description
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- 1 PDF
- Abstract
- "The Arts & Crafts Movement in America" is one of a series of courses in which students engage material culture as primary documents for the study of American cultural history. This course examines the architecture and household furnishings advocated, made and used in America from 1880 - 1920 by social reformers and artisans who thought that the daily life of ordinary folk could be improved by exposing them to good design and by providing them with good, affordable art. Students in this course will be exposed to authentic artifacts of the Arts & Crafts movement, including architecture, furniture, metalware, ceramics, wallpaper, letterpress printing, and textiles in the collections of the John Hay Library, the RISD Museum, and the Providence Art Club. They will integrate this experiential learning with critical readings by the leading proselytes of the Arts & Crafts movement. Specifically, students will: learn to identify and describe authentic objects from the Arts & Crafts movement, learn to analyze and evaluate the artifactual evidence of this reform movement, learn to extrapolate from the advocacy by theoreticians and the experience of practitioners to visualize the successes and failures of this social and design reform. In the first part of the class we will study the roots of the Arts & Crafts Movement in Victorian Britain. The second part of the course explores the flowering of these ideals in the United States, and examines how an English movement for social and design reform became an American style. The third part of the course focuses on how the ideals of the Arts & Crafts Movement flourished in Providence, and includes visits to the Providence Art Club and the Fleur de Lys Studios.
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- AMST 1250G