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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Unicorn Publishing Group

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781911604754

RRP: £20.00

PAGES: 350

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 3, 2018

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William Simmonds: The Silent Heart of the Arts and Crafts Movement

Jessica Douglas-Home

There is a renewed and growing interest in the Arts and Crafts movement, in reaction to modern mass production of domestic items and building types, and to the voiding of craftsmanship from contemporary work. William Simmonds exhibited the dedication and the spiritual discipline that were at the root of the Arts and Crafts movement. Now that the illusory aesthetic of modernism has lost its appeal more and more people are turning back to the Arts and Craft period, in which an aesthetic more suited to the modern world was being discovered and propagated.

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Jessica Douglas-Home

Jessica Douglas-Home trained atChelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art as a painter,etcher and theatre designer. She has had one-man shows in London,Washington and Brussels, and has also designed productions for theNational Theatre and other West End theatres. Her first book, The Lifeand Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse, the acclaimed biography ofthe musician Violet Gordon Woodhouse, appeared in 1996 and was nominated for a Whitbreadprize. This, her fourth book, is on some ways a sequel, adding a newdimension to our understanding of the Arts & Crafts movement. Jessica Douglas-Home is also theauthor of A Glimpse of Empire and Once Upon AnotherTime, a book about her travels behind the Iron Curtain. She haswritten for The Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph,The Times, The Guardian, Standpoint, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement and TheNew Criterion.