World History EncyclopediaOct 9, 2024
This book is recommended to academics and university students interested in different approaches to fiction writing and the evaluation of literary works published in the late Victorian period and early 20th-century literary criticism. #History #LateVictorian #LiteraryHistory #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/475/notework-victorian-literature-and-nonlinear-style/
Notework by Simon Reader (Book Review)

Victorian literature often presents the two matching pieces of the same artefact – expressed and implied. Naturally, any work of literature written in this period...

Open Book PublishersAug 31, 2023

πŸ“’#OutNow in #OA: 'William #Moorcroft, Potter: Individuality by #Design' by Jonathan Mallinson.

#WilliamMoorcroft (1872-1945) was one of the most celebrated #potters of the early twentieth century. His career extended from the #Arts and #Crafts movement of the #lateVictorian age to the #Austerityaesthetics of the Second World War. Rejecting mass production and patronised by #Royalty, #Moorcroft’s work was a synthesis of #studio and #factory, #art and #industry.

This book is a pioneering study by Jonathan Mallinson, Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. It follows the career of William Moorcroft through a wealth of private papers, letters and diaries, business correspondence and published reviews in newspapers, trade magazines and #art journals. Richly illustrated with examples of his #pottery, it explores what lay behind the unique impact of work sought by #museums and treasured in homes the world over.

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William Moorcroft, Potter: Individuality by Design

William Moorcroft (1872-1945) was one of the most celebrated potters of the early twentieth century. His career extended from the Arts and Crafts movement of the late Victorian age to the Austerity aesthetics of the Second World War. Rejecting mass production and patronised by Royalty, Moorcroft’s work was a synthesis of studio and factory, art and industry. He considered it his vocation to create an everyday art, both functional and decorative, affordable by more than a privileged few: β€˜If only the people in the world would concentrate upon making all things beautiful, and if all people concentrated on developing the arts of Peace, what a world it might be,’ he wrote in a letter to his daughter in 1930.