William Morris
Title | William Morris PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona MacCarthy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 780 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Artists |
ISBN | 9780571174959 |
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, the essential biography of the father of the Arts and Crafts movement. The author, Fiona MacCarthy, is the curator of the National Portrait Gallery's 2014-15 exhibition Anarchy and Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy.'One of the finest biographies ever published in this country' A. S. Byatt Since his death in 1896, William Morris has come to be regarded as one of the giants of the Victorian era. But his genius was so many-sided and so profound that its full extent has rarely been grasped. Many people may find it hard to believe that the greatest English designer of his time, possibly of all time, could also be internationally renowned as a founder of the socialist movement, and could have been ranked as a poet together with Tennyson and Browning.With penetrating insight, Fiona MacCarthy has managed to encompass all the different facets of Morris's complex character, shedding light on his immense creative powers as artist and designer of furniture, fabrics, wallpaper, stained glass, tapestry and books, and as a poet, novelist and translator; his psychology and his emotional life; his frenetic activities as polemicist and reformer; and his remarkable circle of friends, literary, artistic and political, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. Fiona MacCarthy's skilful drawing together of these disparate elements makes for a comprehensive and compelling biography.
Designs of William Morris
Title | Designs of William Morris PDF eBook |
Author | Editors of Phaidon Press |
Publisher | Phaidon Press |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1995-10-19 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780714834658 |
A miniature edition of William Morris designs.
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Title | William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Parry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Arts and crafts movement |
ISBN | 9781851702756 |
William Morris Full-Color Patterns and Designs
Title | William Morris Full-Color Patterns and Designs PDF eBook |
Author | William Morris |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2013-01-23 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0486155447 |
Forty of the Victorian master's most famous designs for wallpapers, chintzes, velveteens, tapestries, tiles, carpets, and more. Reproduced from original color plates of The Art of William Morris.
American Book Design and William Morris
Title | American Book Design and William Morris PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Otis Thompson |
Publisher | Lyons and Burford Publishers |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
There are 111 illustrations of bindings, title pages, type, and decorations, as well as a very extensive bibliography.
The Routledge Companion to William Morris
Title | The Routledge Companion to William Morris PDF eBook |
Author | Florence S. Boos |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 2020-10-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1351859005 |
William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels, family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations, political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic. Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry, translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and Victorian and utopian studies.
The Ideal Book
Title | The Ideal Book PDF eBook |
Author | William Morris |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2023-12-22 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520345223 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.