In Essential Arts and Crafts , Karen Livingstone explores the origins, myths, and multiplicity of the Arts and Crafts movement through some of its most ground-breaking works. Encompassing painting and the Japanese Mingei (folkcraft) movement, she subtly redefines and enlarges our understanding of Arts and Crafts, one of the seminal movements of the modern world. The Arts and Crafts movement was one of the most far-reaching and influential design movements...