Textbook Makers: A History of American Studio Craft by Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf
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Chapter 1: The Roots of Studio Craft

Chapter 1 Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter, students should be able to:

  • Explain the differences between England and America's Arts and Crafts Movements
  • Compare and contrast the philosophies of Pugin, Ruskin and Morris that precipitated the Arts & Crafts movement
  • Discuss the impact of late 19th century painters, designers/architects, writers, and arts movements on the rise of the Arts & Crafts movement
  • Compare and contrast the Aesthetic movement with the Arts & Crafts movement
  • Discuss the impact of early World's Fairs on the rise of studio craft
  • Discuss the influences behind the increase of female craft artists in the late 19th century and their unique role in the field
  • Discuss the impact of art potteries on balancing the handmade with the mass-produced craft object

Chapter 1 Resource Lists

Here you will find useful reference lists associated with Chapter 1. Scroll down to view all resources, or select from the following to go directly to any category:

SUPPLEMENTARY READING (Chapter 1)

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CERAMISTS (Chapter 1)

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FIBER AND TEXTILE ARTISTS (Chapter 1)

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GLASS ARTISTS (Chapter 1)

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WOODWORKERS AND FURNITURE DESIGNERS (Chapter 1)

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ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS (Chapter 1)

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BUSINESS AND GALLERY OWNERS (Chapter 1)

  • William Watts Taylor

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EDUCATORS (Chapter 1)

  • Walter Smith

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MUSIC & PERFORMANCE ARTS (Chapter 1)

  • Gilbert and Sullivan

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PAINTERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS & SCULPTORS (Chapter 1)

  • Edward Burne-Jones
  • William Merritt Chase
  • Winslow Homer
  • George Innes
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens
  • Elihu Vedder
  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler

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PATRONS (Chapter 1)

  • Pitts Harrison Burt
  • David King III
  • Frederick Leyland
  • Mrs. Potter Palmer
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt, II

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PUBLIC LIFE (Chapter 1)

  • Chester Arthur
  • Theodore Roosevelt

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SCHOLARS, LEADERS, CURATORS, WRITERS, AND CRITICS (Chapter 1)

  • Michel Eugène Chevreul
  • T.J. Cobden-Sanderson
  • Royal Cortissoz
  • Ulysses Dietz
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friedrich Engels
  • E.W. Godwin
  • Karl Marx
  • May Morris
  • Walter Scott
  • Mark Twain
  • Walt Whitman

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EVENTS (Chapter 1)

  • Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia (1876)
  • Cincinnati Industrial Exposition (1879)
  • Crystal Palace exhibition
  • Great Exhibition, London (1851)
  • Louisiana Purchase Universal Exposition, Saint Louis (1904)
  • Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco (1915)
  • Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo (1901)
  • Paris Exposition of 1878
  • Paris Exposition of 1889
  • Paris Exposition of 1900
  • World War I
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893)

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INSTITUTIONS & ORGANIZATIONS (Chapter 1)

  • Art Workers' Guild
  • Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
  • Associated Artists
  • Atlan Ceramic Art Club
  • Century Guild
  • Cincinnati Pottery Club
  • Cooper Union
  • Guild of Handicraft
  • Guild of St. George
  • Institute of British Architects
  • Musée des Arts Décoratifs
  • National League of Mineral Painters
  • Porcelain League
  • Royal Academy
  • Royal School of Art Needlework
  • Salmagundi Club
  • School and Guild of Handicraft
  • Society of Decorative Arts (SDA)
  • South Kensington Museum
  • Tile Club
  • University of Cincinnati, School of Design
  • Woman's Art School of New York

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BUSINESSES (Chapter 1)

  • Anna Pottery
  • Avon Pottery
  • Chelsea Keramic Art Works
  • Cheney Brothers
  • Dallas Pottery
  • Dedham Pottery
  • Edgerton Art Studio
  • Frackelton Dry Water Colors
  • Healy & Millet
  • Herter Brothers
  • J. and J.G. Low Art Tiles
  • J.B. Owens Pottery Co.
  • Kelmscott Press
  • Libbey Glass Company of Toledo
  • Lonhuda Pottery
  • Louis C. Tiffany & Company
  • Marquand and Co.
  • Minton pottery
  • Morris & Co.
  • Nashville Art Pottery
  • Pauline Pottery
  • Pickard China Studio
  • Rookwood Pottery
  • Roseville Pottery
  • Smith Brothers
  • Tiffany & Co.
  • Tiffany & Wheeler
  • Volkmar Kilns
  • Wedgwood pottery
  • Weller Pottery

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PUBLICATIONS (Chapter 1)

  • Artistic Houses
  • China Decorator magazine
  • Cook, Clarence: The House Beautiful
  • Cooper, H.J.: The Art of Furnishing on Rational and Aesthetic Principles
  • Dibble, Mabel C.: How to Use Enamels on China
  • Du Maurier, George: The Six-Mark Teapot
  • Eastlake, Charles: Hints on Household Tastes in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details
  • Furniture Gazette
  • Hokusai: Manga
  • International Studio magazine
  • Jones, Owen: Grammar of Ornament
  • Keramic Studio magazine
  • McLaughlin, M. Louise: China Painting,Pottery Decoration under the Glaze
  • Morris, William (1834-96): News from Nowhere
  • Morse, Edward S.: Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings
  • New York Daily Graphic: Boston Aestheticism versus Oscar Wilde
  • Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore: Contrasts
  • Punch
  • Ruskin, John: Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice, Unto This Last, The Two Paths
  • Studio magazine
  • The Rookwood Shape Book
  • Wheeler, Candace: The Development of Embroidery in America
  • Wilde, Oscar: The Renaissance in English Art, The House Beautiful

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STYLES & MOVEMENTS (Chapter 1)

  • Aesthetic movement
  • American Arts and Crafts
  • Art glass
  • Art nouveau
  • Art pottery
  • Arts and Crafts movement
  • Capitalism
  • China painting
  • Cincinnati wood-carving movement
  • Colonial revival
  • Crazy quilts
  • English Arts and Crafts
  • Factory system
  • Gothic style
  • Guilds
  • Industrial arts education movement
  • Industrialization
  • Japanese design influence
  • Marxism
  • Mass production
  • Medieval period
  • Neoclassicism
  • Pre-Raphaelites
  • Settlement houses
  • Socialism
  • South Kensington system
  • Studio craft movement
  • Studio pottery movement

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