John Ruskin and the Lakeland Arts Revival, 1880-1920

Sara E. Haslam
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Between about 1880 and the end of the First World War there was a widespread revival in traditional handcrafts in the Lake District. Inspired initially by the teachings of John Ruskin, pioneers of the revival established workshops in Keswick, Kendal and elsewhere in which textiles, woodwork and metalwork were made by hand by local craftsmen and women. Their output formed the basis of a series of successful art exhibitions, notably those at Kendal in 1891 and 1899.
The Lakeland arts revival has hitherto either been neglected or else wrongly regarded as part of the Arts and Crafts movement, whereas it developed earlier and independently, from essentially local roots. This study gives proper weight to the revival and rescues a number of figures from obscurity. It also sets the movement in the wider context of the arts in the Lake District, in a period where W.G. Collingwood, Beatrix Potter and others were active in the region.

Published by :	Merton Priory Press Ltd.
Published Date :	2004
Pages :	250
Format :	Paperback
Illustrations :	b&w photographs.
ISBN :	1898937605

John Ruskin and the Lakeland Arts Revival, 1880-1920

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