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• Title:William Simmonds : the silent heart of the arts and crafts movement / Jessica Douglas-Home.
  
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• Author/Creator:Douglas-Home, Jessica, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Simmonds, W. G. (William George), 1876-1968. Works. Selections.
  
• Published/Created:London : Unicorn, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NK1142 .D684 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Simmonds, W. G. (William George), 1876-1968.
  Arts and crafts movement--Great Britain.
  Modernism (Art)--Great Britain.
  
• Description:284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:This book looks at the Arts & Crafts movement through the work of William Simmonds, his life, his friends and their attitudes to modernism to show why that movement was important, how it fitted into its age and what it taught then and can teach us today.
  
• Notes:Maps on lining papers.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-273) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781911604754 (hbk.)
  1911604759 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Beginnings 1876-1892
  National art training school 1893-1898
  Royal academy schools 1899
  Upper schools 1900-1904
  The genius of Edwin Abbey 1904-1905
  Signs of expulsion and emigration 1906-1907
  All-powerful 'summer exhibition' 1907-1911
  Eve Simmonds 1910-1912
  Secret war work 1914-1915
  Scultping becomes the consuming passion 1915-1916
  War work for De Havilland 1917-1918
  When the fighting stops 1918
  Call of the Cotswolds 1918-1919
  New theatre director for Oakridge 1919-1921
  Annus mirabilis 1921
  Second Annus mirabilis 1922
  Professors on the road 1922-1923
  Puppets claim centre stage 1923-1925
  Wilkinsons, Simmondses, D.H. Lawrence 1926
  Enter Violet Gordon Woodhouse 1927-1929
  William, Violet and Rothenstein 1929-1933
  Detmar blow destroyed 1934-1939
  Initial years of the second World War 1939-1941
  Latter years of the second World War 1941-1945
  William's final years 1945-1968.