2011年10月14日 · Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design explored the rich intersection of craft with fine art and design in the period 1945–1969, a time of tremendous social change. The exhibition rethought postwar Modernism through the …

2025年2月18日 · Modernism was a movement in the fine arts in the late 19th to mid-20th century, defined by a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. It fostered a period of experimentation in literature, music, dance, visual art, and architecture. Learn more about the history of Modernism and its various manifestations.

2021年6月17日 · Comparing examples of Modernism and Arts and Crafts, it can be suggested that both of them have the unique quality of utilitarianism and the focus on embracing materials used in their designs. For Arts and Crafts, such materials included wood, stone, and fabrics. For modernism, they included steel, concrete, glass, and others.

The years following the Second World War saw an explosion of craft art in America. Men and women from all walks of life and corners of the globe rediscovered and reinvigorated such traditional media as ceramics, fiber, glass, metal and wood. In our own region, Rochester Institute of Technology and Alfred University became major creative centers.

2013年10月4日 · Hand-made objects, long subservient to an artificial hierarchy of the arts established in the Renaissance, underwent a paradigm shift in the postwar period, defined here as 1945 to 1969, and became an assertive form of artistic expression.

2025年1月21日 · The Journal of Modern Craft is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to provide an interdisciplinary and international forum in its subject area. It addresses all forms of making that self-consciously set themselves apart from mass production—whether in the making of designed objects, artworks, buildings, or other artefacts.

2021年4月28日 · Modern Art, also referred to as Modernism, was viewed as both an art and philosophical movement at the time of its emergence. This movement reflected the immense longing of artists to produce new forms of art, philosophy, and social structures that precisely reflected the newly developing world.

The book explores the origins of the studio craft movement, the international influences that helped it grow, and its convergence with the fine arts and design. It reveals how a new generation of craftspeople began to express cultural identity and artistic innovation through their work, which led to a proliferation of the craft movement in ...

2024年10月28日 · Modernist architecture sought to harmonize functionality with aesthetics. The Bauhaus school, founded by Walter Gropius, integrated art, craft, and industry, influencing design worldwide. Iconic structures like Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and Mies van der Rohe’s minimalist skyscrapers exemplified Modernism’s emphasis on simplicity and ...