De l’unité des arts comme résistance : The Claims of Decorative Art de Walter Crane by Isabelle Cases

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« Culture for the million, or society as it may be » by Françoise Baillet

“…When in the late nineteenth century Aestheticism slowly lost ground to the Arts and Crafts Movement and then to Decadence and Art Nouveau, the Victorian artistic field had considerably evolved. …”
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“She who would refine the fabric:” Contexts for Reading the Embroidering and Writing of Florence Farr and Una Taylor by Jane SPIRIT

“…Texts by Lucy Crane, Rhoda and Agnes Garrett and Janey Campbell are discussed as representative of the ongoing significance of “art embroidery” for the Arts and Crafts movement and a developing aestheticism. Against this background, Florence Farr and Una Taylor are considered as female embroiderers associated with the Morris family business whose literary works suggest both the questioning of established mores and a continued adherence to ritualism and medievalism. …”
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Walter Crane : de l’album considéré comme un des Beaux-Arts by Isabelle Guillaume

“…Leader of the second generation of Pre-Raphaelites and initiator of the Arts and Crafts movement, Morris advocated the abolition of the hierarchy between artistic practices in favor of the emergence of a homogeneous class of creators producing objects and artworks. …”
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