[PDF] Selections From Rossetti Morris eBook

Author : H. M. Burton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107692237

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A 1929 selection of poetry and prose from two prominent members of the Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris.

Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher :
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Artists
ISBN : 9780571174959

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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.

Author : Florence S. Boos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351859005

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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.

Author : Amanda Hodgson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780521154925

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This 1987 book investigates the dismissal of William Morris's romances as self-indulgent fantasy, looking at the ways in which our sense of the 'escapism' of Morris's fairy-tale writing can be modified or expanded when seen in relation to the development of his imagination in other spheres, both political and creative.

Author : Editors of Phaidon Press
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780714834658

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A miniature edition of William Morris designs.