American Arts and Crafts: Virtue in Design (A Catalogue of the Palevsky/Evans Collection and Related Works at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art)

About this book

Influenced by developments in Europe American proponents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries successfully promoted the "minor arts" as fine art hand-wrought by individual craftsmen extolling the virtue of everyday objects and a return to honest simple materials and workmanship. The designs are perhaps the closest embodiment there is of "American style". Included are furniture ceramics metalwork glass books drawings and textiles by Gustav Stickley Greene & Greene Frank Lloyd Wright Tiffany Studios and many others. This book looks at their work.