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The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society was formed in London in 1887 to promote the exhibition of decorative arts alongside fine arts. Its exhibitions, held annually at the New Gallery from 1888–90, and roughly every three years thereafter,〔Parry 1989, p. 12-13〕〔Crane, "Of the Arts and Crafts Movement"〕 were important in the flowering of the British Arts and Crafts Movement in the decades prior to World War I. The illustrator and designer Walter Crane served as the founding president of the Society for its first three years.〔 Of its goals and purposes, he wrote: Annual exhibitions were held at the New Gallery in 1888, 1889, and 1890, but the third exhibition failed to match the quality of the first two, and was a financial disaster.〔Parry 2005, p. 70〕 William Morris succeeded Crane as president in 1891.,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Art Societies )〕 and the Society thereafter chose to reduce the frequency of showings in order to ensure an abundance of materials to display.〔 The Society published ''Arts and Crafts Essays'', an influential collection of essays on the decorative arts by its members, in 1893. Contributors included Morris, Crane, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Ford Madox Brown, and May Morris. The fourth exhibition, held in 1893, was far more successful, and the fifth exhibition of 1896—although clouded by the death of William Morris on its planned opening day—proved to be its most influential.〔Parry 2005, p. 71〕 The 1899 exhibit featured a Morris retrospective.〔Parry 2005, p. 79〕 Another successful exhibition was held in 1903, but the Society suffered organizational problems in the new century, with the exhibitions of 1906, 1910, 1912 and 1916 each being held in a different location. Crane died in 1915, and architect and designer Henry Wilson was president from 1915 to 1922, but the exhibitions failed to recover the critical and artistic success of the 1890s.〔Parry 2005, pp. 89-92〕 The Society continued to exhibit periodically up until the 1950s and many eminent craftsmen and women were associated with it.〔John Farleigh, ''The Creative Craftsman'', London: G.Bell and Sons, 1950〕 In the 1930s it tentatively included products designed by craftsmen for industry, which brought its exhibitions to the notice of the press again.〔"Arts and Crafts at Burlington House", ''The Manchester Guardian'', 4 November 1938, p.5〕 In 1960 it merged with the Cambridgeshire Guild of Craftsmen to form the Society of Designer Craftsmen, which is still active.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Society of Designer Craftsmen )〕 ==Notes== (詳細はウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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