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Book Review
| The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest. By Lawrence Kreisman and Glenn Mason. (Portland: Timber Press, 2007. 398 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index, $39.95.)
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What westerner could not be a little in love with the Arts and Crafts Movement with its insistence that beauty derived from naturalistic forms and a harmony with nature? In this stunningly beautiful book, Kreisman and Mason argue that the environment of the Pacific Northwest generated a particularly appealing regional version of the larger, international development. Stuffed with vivid renderings and historic and contemporary photographs on virtually every page, this book is the first compendium of arts and crafts efforts in this landscape famous for its various expressions of the style. |
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