Survey 5: Painters and posters  (1850 – 1895)

Owen Jones, “The Grammar of Ornament”
The complete 19th-century “bible” of world ornament/decoration. (Warning: contains insulting descriptions of Indigenous Peoples).

Optional extra resources:

Watch: Arts & Crafts Design in a Nutshell
Owen Jones, “The Grammar of Ornament”
(The complete 19th-century “bible” of world ornament/decoration.
Great V&A article on Owen Jones
The British Library on The Great Exhibition
The V&A Museum on The Great Exhibition

“Form without colour is like
a body without a soul”.

Owen Jones, 19th century