![]() ![]() The faith in the ability of art to reshape society exerted a powerful influence on its many successor movements in all branches of the arts. Although the movement did not adopt its common name until 1887, in these two countries the Arts & Crafts existed in many variations, and inspired similar contemporaneous groups of artists and reformers in Europe and North America, including Art Nouveau, the Wiener Werkstatte, the Prairie School, and many others. The Arts & Crafts emerged in the United Kingdom around 1860, at roughly the same time as the closely related Aesthetic Movement, but the spread of the Arts & Crafts across the Atlantic to the United States in the 1890s, enabled it to last longer - at least into the 1920s. The movement is admired for its use of high quality materials and for its emphasis on utility in design. Disenchanted with the impersonal, mechanized direction of society in the 19 th century, they sought to return to a simpler, more fulfilling way of living. ![]() The founders of the Arts & Crafts Movement were some of the first major critics of the Industrial Revolution.
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