Author: Charles Robert AshbeePublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
From Whitechapel to Camelot
Author: Charles Robert AshbeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Utopian England
Author: Dennis HardyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135153973
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an economic depression, and the emergence of fascist states in Europe were all a spur to idealists to seek new limits - to escape from the here and now, and to create sanctuaries for new and better lives. Dennis Hardy explores this fascinating history of utopian ideals, the lives of those who pursued them, and the utopian communities they created. Some communities were fired by a long tradition of land movements, others by thoughts of more humane ways of building towns. In turn there were experiments devoted to the arts; to the promotion of religious doctrine; and to a variety of political causes. And some were just 'places of the imagination'. Utopian England is about just one episode in the perennial search for perfection, but what is revealed has lessons that extend well beyond a particular time and place. So long as there are failings in society, so long as rationality is not enough, there will continue to be a place for thinking the impossible, for going in search of utopia.
The Simple Life
Author: Fiona MacCarthyPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 057132021X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The Simple Life (1981) was Fiona MacCarthy's first book, written while she was the Guardian's design correspondent (and before her acclaimed lives of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones.) It tells of a venturesome effort to enact an Edwardian Utopia in a small town in the Cotswolds. The leader of this endeavour was progressive-minded architect Charles Robert Ashbee, who in 1888 founded the Guild of Handicraft in Whitechapel, specialising in metalworking, jewellery and furniture and informed by the desire to improve society. In 1902 Ashbee and his East London comrades removed the Guild to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, hoping to construct a socialistic rural idyll. MacCarthy explores the impact of the experiment on the lives of the group and on the little town they occupied - tracing the Guild's fortunes and misfortunes, hilarious and grave, and the many fellow idealists and artists who were involved (among them William Morris, Roger Fry, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb.)
Catalogue of the Library of Henry W. Poor ...
Author: Henry William PoorRoger Fry, Art and Life
Author: Frances SpaldingPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520041264
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Traces the career of the nineteenth-century English art critic and painter, who associated with the Bloomsbury group, Picasso, and Bernard Shaw
Private Library of Harold Peirce of Philadelphia
Author: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group
Author: Victoria RosnerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive guide to the storied Bloomsbury Group, a social circle of prominent intellectuals active during the interwar period.
The Athenæum
Author: Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
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