Question

The Arts and Crafts movement was a type of rebellion to the over elaborate designs of the past, as it adopted more of a simplistic strategy. What do you think is the most important contribution the Arts and Crafts movement made to architecture and design, and why?

(Need answer in own words, not from answer sheet)

Answer 1

The Arts and Crafts was an esthetic and social British movement, which has defended the return to creative handcraft in opposite to the mechanized industrial objects.

They believed that the return to the artisans' origins, the manual labor would be valorized. Critics and theorists formed in 1888, in London, the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, in a period that the Industrial Revolution reached many countries and invaded the market with several objects whose artistic value was lost.