Arts and craft movement : Arts and Crafts Movement
The Arts and Crafts Movement is the name given to a period of British decorative arts, architecture, and garden design, that is primarily associated with William Morris, Gertrude Jekyll[?], Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and artists in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The inspiration for much of the movements ideas followed the writings of John Ruskin. It was part of the major English aesthetic movement of the last years of the 19th century, calling for simplicity and clear function and leading the reaction against Victorian overdecoration and also against industrial production as opposed to hand crafts.It was a foundation for such other movements as Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Bauhaus. It influenced architecture, crafts, art, and town planning. In the United States, it spawned complimentary and sympathetic movements such as Mission, Prairie, and Craftsman. Arts and Crafts was an early influence on Frank Lloyd Wright.
they entered into conversation, using violent gesticulations;
language of the country, which differed from that of my protectors.
as I knew that he had not quitted the cottage that morning,
of these unusual appearances.
"`Do you consider,' said his companion to him, `that you will be obliged
I do not wish to take any unfair advantage, and I beg therefore
your cottage. The life of my father is in the greatest danger,
and my sister will never recover from their horror. I entreat
tenement and let me fly from this place.'
"Felix trembled violently as he said this. He and his companion
and then departed. I never saw any of the family of De Lacey more.
"I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of
the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the
to control them, but allowing myself to be borne away by the stream,
of the mild voice of De Lacey, the gentle eyes of Agatha, and the
gush of tears somewhat soothed me. But again when I reflected
unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects.
and after having destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden, I waited
quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens;
insanity in my spirits that burst all bounds of reason and reflection.
devoted cottage, my eyes still fixed on the western horizon, the edge
and I waved my brand; it sank, and with a loud scream I fired the straw,
and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it
the habitation, I quitted the scene and sought for refuge in the woods.
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