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...The American Arts and Crafts movement... was concerned with promoting good taste and self-fulfillment through the creation and the appreciation of beautiful objects...
...(After a time...) the Arts and Crafts movement no longer represented a radical alternative to the alienated labor of the factories. Instead, it provided yet another therapeutic escape from it, turning into a “revivifying hobby for the affluent.” ...“The craft impulse has become dispersed in millions of do-it-yourself projects and basement workshops, where men and women have sought the wholeness, the autonomy, and the joy they cannot find on the job or in domestic drudgery.”
Read more : Making It, Evgeny Morozov, The New Yorker, Jan 2014 | Posted by Daniell