Design History: Arts and Crafts

I Study the active vocabulary and focus on Ukrainian equivalents of English words.

Arts and Crafts мистецтво і ремесла

glitter блискітка

garish дуже яскравий

bobble hat шапка з помпоном

fed up with ситий по горло

steam engine паровий двигун

agriculture сільське господарство

go nuts for божеволіти від

manufacturer виробник

craftsman майстер

perfect вдосконалювати

 skill вміння

mass production масове виробництво

fade away згасати

rebellion бунт

impact вплив

beardy бородань

reject відкинути

master опановувати

influential впливовий

provide забезпечувати

homeowner домовласник

wallpaper шпалери

stained glass вітражне скло

carpeting ковролін

purist пурист

hammer молоток

visible видимий

metalwork металоконструкції

joint місце з’єднання

expose виставляти напоказ

furniture меблі

promote сприяти

champion відстоювати

ordinary звичайний

underappreciated недооцінений

appeal привабливість

aim ціль

rely upon покладатися на

human  людський

II   Vocabulary focus. Study the words and  word combinations, check your understanding using flashcards, practise their translation, spelling. Check your knowledge in the test. Play matching vocabulary game (match words to their translations to make cards disappear)  and save the planet from asteroids by typing in correct translation of the words.

III Watch the video again and choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

Arts and Crafted/Crafts/Cranes isn’t just about glitter, glue/true/gle, and garish bobble hats. Arts and Crafts, the moving/moved/movement, was actually one of the most influence/influential/influenced periods in design history/historic/story.

About 150 years ago people had become totally felt up to/ filled with/fed up with machines. Not that kind of machine, this kind. The steam/team/stream engine had brought mechanization to industrialized/industry/industrial, agriculture, and transportation which changed everything/sometime/no one. Pope/people/pole had gone nuts for technical/technologist/technology. Manufacturers/manufactured/manufacture could now make toads/roads/loads of stuff for loads of people without really thinking too much about the final product/abduct/predict. Before the Industrial Revolutionary/Revolution/Solution a craftsman would spend a lifetime perfecting/infecting/affecting his skill, and it showed. But when massively/mass/miss production came along the art of making things, crafting them, kind of faded/fading/waded away. The Arts and Crafts movement was a million/rebellion/billion, a reaction to the negative/positively/negatively impact of industry. And this beardy led the charge. William Morris was a poet and arts/artist/crafts. He lived/believed/relived industrial production was making us less creative/creation/artist and removing skill from the manufacturing process. Morris said: “we do not inject/subject/reject the machine, we welcome/welcoming/succumb it. But we would desire to see it plastered/mastering/mastered”. His influential company/campaign/companion Morris, Marshall, Faulkner &Co provided everything the 19^th century house/homeowner/car owner needed from wallpaper to furnishing/fabrication/fabrics, stained glass to carpenter/tapestry/carpeting. Arts and Crafts purists like Morris liked to see, well, craftsmanship in the things they made and told/old/sold. Hammer marks/parks/arches were left visible on metalwork/needlework/metallic, joints imposed/opposed/exposed in furniture. The movement promoted economic/economical/bionic and social reform while championing extraordinarily/ordinary/originally workers and underappreciated/overrated/underrated craftspeople. Arts and Crafts had globe/global/globally appeal.

You could see Arts and Crafts forever/never/however actually ended. Its morals, ethics/ethically/ethical and politician/political/politics aims are still evident today/yesterday/ day. We love knowing where our stuff is made, and whether it was made farewell/well/will or not. Even though we know rely/lie/imply upon technology more than at any point in humanity/human/men history we also still care about how and why things/something/anything is made. You can thank the Arts and Crafts movement for that. Have you mastered your machines?      

IV Watch the video and read the text above. Answer the questions.

1 What can Arts and Crafts mean today? What is Arts and Crafts in the history of design?

2 What changes in industry and transportation were connected to the Arts and Crafts movement? Were all people happy with the development of industry?

3 Who is associated with Arts and Crafts movement? What was the role of those people in the history of design?

4 What are the characteristic features of Arts and Crafts movement?

5 What companies were connected to the Arts and Crafts movement? What products did those companies manufacture and what was special about them?

6 What was the role of craftsmen and their skills in Arts and Crafts movement?

7 Can we see the influence of Arts and Crafts movement today? If yes, where can we find it?

V OVER TO YOU. Find information about representatives of Arts and Crafts movement and their work. Get ready to discuss your findings with other students.