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A 10 page paper which discusses the
styles of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Bauhaus. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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are Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Bauhaus. They each offered up art that was involved with households, whether it be decorative, functional, or merely architectural. They ranged from everyday
items such as brushes and combs, to simple furniture and structural elements. With that in mind the following paper examines these three different art movements, discussing their elements, the style,
and their particular period in history. Arts and Crafts This movement was intended to "reassert the importance of finely designed and made object in the face of increasing
industrialization and mass-production" (Delahunt: Art, 2003). "The Arts and Crafts Movement began in England in the 1860s as a reform movement. Its primary proponents were John Ruskin....its philosophical leader, was
the most influential of all Victorian writers on the arts and a member of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Pre-Raphaelites believed the medieval world was purer in form than the post-Renaissance
world because it was more closely tied to nature" (The Arts and Crafts Movement in the American Midwest, Roots of Arts and Crafts, 2003). He believed that "the decorative arts
affected the men who produced them. The machine dehumanized the worker and led to a loss of dignity because it removed him from the artistic process and thus, nature itself.
As Ruskin stated, all cast from the machine is bad, as work it is dishonest" (The Arts and Crafts Movement in the American Midwest, Roots of Arts and Crafts, 2003).
As we can see, it was Ruskin who perhaps lay the foundations for the philosophical nature of the Arts and Crafts movement. It was, however, "William Morris who became
its leader. Morris took Ruskins ideas about nature, art, morality, and the degradation of human labor and translated them into a unified theory of design. By doing so, Morris successfully
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