Practice question · Multiple choice
The Arts and Crafts movement wanted beautiful objects for ordinary life and produced goods mainly affordable by the wealthy. Why did that follow from its own commitments?
Hints
- Ask what the movement's stance on machinery implied for cost.
- Hand production has a price, and the price is not optional.
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A. Rejecting industrial production meant hand-making, which is expensive
Why
Because hand production costs what it costs. The objection to industry was an objection to the separation of design from execution, and honouring it meant making by hand, which put the results beyond the people they were intended for. The Bauhaus answered the same objection by designing for the machine instead.
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