Arts and Crafts
Arts & Crafts was an English art movement of the Victorian era (late nineteenth century), whose members followed the ideas of John Ruskin (Ruskin) and William Morris about the artistic superiority of handicrafts over industrial products. William Morris, artist, art theorist, writer, publicist and politician, tried to put into practice John Ruskin's utopian ideas about the revival of medieval aesthetics. The Arts and Crafts movement can be seen as a form of resistance to the tastes of the...