American Craftsman Design


	American Craftsman Design

dsatkins

1-8-2008 9:49 AM

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Socialism, Individualism, and Design

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ec6dbe05-57a3-4ff9-9568-8d2442572278/C9D9392E-7D58-4ABD-AB37-347292B61E39/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Craftsman&oldid=181068137" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Craftsman&oldid=181068137" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Craftsman&oldid=181068137">The American Craftsman style has its origins in the earlier British <A title="Arts and Crafts movement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_movement">Arts and Crafts movement</A> which dates back to the 1860s. The British movement, which spawned a wide variety of related but conceptually very distinct design movements throughout Europe, was a reaction to the degradation of the dignity of human labor resulting from the <A title="Industrial Revolution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution">Industrial Revolution</A>. In many ways it was a reaction against the over-decorated aesthetic and disregard for the worker of the <A title="Victorian era" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era">Victorian era</A>. Seeking to ennoble the craftsman once again, the movement emphasized the hand-made over the mass-produced.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Craftsman&oldid=181068137"><A title="William Morris" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris">William Morris</A>, was a staunch <A title="Socialist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist">socialist</A> and as such the philosophy behind the <A title="Arts and Crafts movement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_movement">Arts and Crafts movement</A> in the UK is clearly part of the <A title="Materialist dialectic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialist_dialectic">materialist dialectic</A>. However, the expensive materials and expensive hand-made techniques meant that the movement was in fact serving the wealthiest clients, a seeming contradiction to its roots in socialist philosophy.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C9D9392E-7D58-4ABD-AB37-347292B61E39/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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