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Rosie Ibbotson: Arts and Crafts Vision
Charles Gere, frontispiece to News from Nowhere (or, an epoch of rest) by William Morris, Kelmscott Press, 1892. Woodcut engraved by W H Hooper.
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South Library, 66 Colombo St
International and synoptic in scope, the Arts and Crafts Movement was a major and richly connected chapter in the intellectual history spanning from around the 1870s and continuing into the years following the Second World War.
Encompassing a diverse range of practices, the Arts and Crafts movement was also variously influenced by aspects of contemporary thought, and drew on a range of imaginaries in the hope of transforming its environments. This lecture looks at how the idea of vision might be understood in these contexts. In particular, I argue for the centrality of the survey within Arts and Crafts endeavours.
Rosie Ibbotson is a lecturer in the Department of Art History, University of Canterbury, where she works on European art and material culture of the 'long nineteenth century'. She joined the Department in 2013, following a Postdoctoral Research Associateship at the Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Prior to this Rosie studied at the University of Cambridge, where her doctoral research focused on collaboration and fraternalism within the Arts and Crafts Movement.
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