The framework of anti-modernism and non-modernism in arts and crafts movement

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25870640
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Architectural history/Design; Aesthetics and studies on art
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: SUGIYAMA Mao 京都大学, 工学研究科, 助教 (70625756)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: アーツ・アンド・クラフツ / ウィリアム・モリス / 非モダニズム / 適合性 / 生命

Outline of Final Research Achievements

What I wish to show in this study is a theory about the relationship between art and society which comports with mature society or rural community. It is possible to say that there are lots of views of nature and civilization that have been disregarded under modernism. Based on this postulate, I termed these views anti-modernism and non-modernism, and tried to describe the range of these conceptions through analyzing the arts and crafts movement. Concretely, main subjects of this study were William Morris’s theory of book, C.R.Ashbee’s theory of art education, C.F.A.Voysey’s architectural thought, botanical pattern-designs at the end of the 19th century, and the diffusion of knowledge about Morris in the Taisho period in Japan. In this research, I carefully examined the meaning of division between the two such as classicism and romanticism, science and art, city and countryside, individualism and collectivism, and finally suggested the way of thinking beyond dichotomy.

Free Research Field

建築歴史・意匠