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A 6 page research paper that examines two trends, or manifestos, in art history, Marxism and the Arts and Crafts movement in Great Britain and are two art movements that have features that reflect the same orientation toward art and modernism, yet also differ markedly in their basic orientation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the case. Within the world of art and architecture, there have been numerous manifestoes, particularly in regards to the overall umbrella of modernism. The following examination looks specifically at the
manifestoes, that is the basic positions, generated by two trends, Marxism and the Arts and Crafts movement in Great Britain and shows that these two art movements have features
that reflect the same orientation toward art and modernism, yet also differ markedly in their basic orientation. By the late 1890s, in Great Britain, the idea of the
Arts and Crafts movement had already become part of the educational establishment (Crouch, 1999). This was something of an odd occurrence, as the ideas that designers had about hand manufacture
were seemingly opposed to the demands of an advanced industrial manufacturing nation (Crouch, 1999). This was one of the many contradictions that ideas concerning Modernism seemed to thrive on and
this tread had a marked effect on the development of ideas concerning Modernism in Germany (Crouch, 1999). In general, the artists and designers of the Arts and Crafts movement
turned their backs on the industrialized world in favor of handcrafts (Crouch, 1999). While they were not all firmly anti-machine (and some were), they were uniformly opposed to the social
and artistic consequences of what they felt was ill-considered machine use (Crouch, 1999). Hand skills were esteemed due to the fact that they expressed the individuality of the workers, which
the machine--by its very nature--"suppressed and oppressed" (Crouch, 1999, p. 30). Also, there was the idea that different materials, different woods, for example, respond different to various structural tasks. The
idea was that the correct working method for each material should be in response to its individual qualities (Crouch, 1999). One of the reasons why industrial production was devalued was
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