Arts and Crafts Goes to War
The Arts and Crafts Movement began in England around 1880. Even though it was rooted in the notion of rejecting all things machine-made in exchange for a return to the human hand, it spawned Modernism in which the machine became an object of worship. Arts and Crafts was a worldwide phenomenon influencing the Mingei movement in Japan and Art Nouveau in Europe. Its name is traced to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society which was formed in London in 1887 to promote the decorat