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Hace 3 días · The contemporary degrowth movement can trace its roots back to the anti-industrialist trends of the 19th century, developed in Great Britain by John Ruskin, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement (1819–1900), in the United States by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), and in Russia by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910).
Hace 5 días · Arts & Crafts. The Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. Inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and a romantic idealization of the craftsman taking pride in his personal handiwork, it was at its height between approximately ...
Hace 4 días · The Arts & Crafts revival interprets elements of early-20th-century Arts & Crafts houses, with an embrace of new technology, universal design, and environmentally responsible building practices. Some revival motifs have become familiar: enveloping rooflines, battered porch columns and over-scaled brackets, the use of river rock and shingles.
Hace 1 día · J. R. R. Tolkien 's fantasy books on Middle-earth, especially The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, drew on a wide array of influences including language, Christianity, mythology, archaeology, ancient and modern literature, and personal experience. He was inspired primarily by his profession, philology; his work centred on the study of ...
Hace 5 días · The International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( ISKCON ), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization. It was founded on 13 July 1966 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. [2] Its main headquarters is located in Mayapur, West Bengal, India .
Hace 1 día · Burges stands within the tradition of the Gothic Revival, his works echoing those of the Pre-Raphaelites and heralding those of the Arts and Crafts movement . Burges's career was short but illustrious; he won his first major commission for Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork in 1863 when he was 35.
Hace 2 días · Brussels International (1897) in Brussels. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large ...
