| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1987: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This study is an attempt to approach nineteenth-century English design form several view points. Henry Cole tried to improve design because of the appalling level of industrial design of that period. But famous novelist Charles Dickens did not agree with those improvements. He described the vigorous life of middle-class society in his novels. Not only in his novels, but in real life, men devoted themselves to their work and women devoted themselves to household. Many textbooks of household taste were published. In these books, we can find new aspects of design, though we can not sympathize with that concept of design. Design is how to live one's own life, not ladylike virtue. And the image of a healthy and charming housekeeper was destroyed by the "femme fatale" in the Pre-Raphaelites" pictures. The Pre-Raphaelites are very important to consider when studying the origin of modern design, William Morris first become a designer among them. His love for the romances of the Middle Ages led him to design simple and beautiful dresses and furniture. The beginning of modern design did not start from government propaganda but from love of romance. morris influenced many young craftsmen. I think the Arts and Crafts Movement is meaning for us living in a world where materials are limited. Charles Robert Ashbee organized the Utopian Craftsmen in the country, making excellent artifacts with their own hands not by machines. The works of deurs F. Day are also interesting because they show the consciousness of nineteenth-century design in England.
Thorough researching the above facts, I came to understand that design is not only to produce things with material, form and color, but also to consider how to make one's own vision.
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