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- Title
Alfred Powell: Idealism and Realism in the Cotswolds.
- Authors
Sarsby, Jacqueline
- Abstract
Alfred Powell's idea of art embraced all work, not just what could be sold in a gallery; he saw it as inherent in happy, satisfying work of all kinds. Gimson's workshops in the South Cotswolds and the reintroduction of hand-painting at Wedgwood were seen by Powell as ways of giving back to people opportunities for creative workmanship. His own work included architecture, pottery- and furniture-painting, but he also designed and made furniture. He believed that architecture and the crafts should create an organic whole with the natural world, and that industrialization and bad building robbed people of the conditions in which they could be happy and create good work, With his wife Louise, he helped to create a community of artists and craftspeople in Gloucestershire before the Second World War. He was involved in many community and philanthropic projects, at home and abroad. His concern for the craftsperson, who, he believed, had the right to satisfying, creative work, contrasts with the concern among many of his contemporaries in the crafts, from the 1920s onwards, with the intuitively created art-object and the personality of the artist-craftsman.
- Subjects
COTSWOLD Hills (England); ENGLAND; POWELL, Alfred; IDEALISM in art; REALISM in art; WORKMANSHIP; ARCHITECTURAL history; HISTORY of pottery; INDUSTRIALIZATION
- Publication
Journal of Design History, 1997, Vol 10, Issue 4, p375
- ISSN
0952-4649
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jdh/10.4.375