Saturday, May 12, 2012

"From Rossetti to Voysey: Arts & Crafts Stamped Book Cover Design" opens at Blackwell


Art Daily Newsletter
CUMBRIA.- This unique exhibition brings together over 90 books with case-bound cloth covers by artists and designers, their names read like a roll-call of the leading artists and designers of the day. Philip Webb, DG Rossetti, William Morris, Charles Ricketts, Walter Crane, Lewis F Day, Selwyn Image, Laurence Housman, James Guthrie, Gleeson White, Robert Anning Bell, Lucy Faulkner are all represented. Published between 1866 and 1911 and issued by commercial publishers the books all come from the collection of Malcolm Haslam, co-curator of the exhibition with Kathy Haslam, Blackwell's curator. Malcolm and Kathy have made their selection based on the grounds of the covers style and for the proximity of their designers to the core of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Every artist included had work shown at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, and 17 of the selected titles ... More

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