The Art that is Life": The Arts & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920
first edition Softcover
1987 · Boston
by Kaplan, Wendy
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1987. 1st edition. Softcover. VG+, clean and bright internally but with light fading to (unbroken) spine and wear at head of spine.. Color wraps. xiv, 410 pp. 223 color, 225 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with several 1987-1988 exhibitions. Illustrated and annotated catalogue of 188 works with four lengthy essays: by Wendy Kaplan, "The Lamp of British Precedent: An Introduction to the Arts and Crafts Movement" and "Spreading the Crafts: The Role of the Schools"; by Eileen Boris, "'Dreams of Brotherhood and Beauty': The Social Ideas of the Arts and Crafts Movement"; and by Cheryl Robertson, "House and Home in the Arts and Crafts Era: Reforms for Simpler Living"; and an index. This is the scarce first edition of this landmark study. (Inventory #: 11469)