William Morris

Author: Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571174959
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 780

Book Description
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.

William Morris

Author: Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher: Faber & Faber Non Fiction
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 892

Book Description
Biographies and autobiographies.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles

Author: William Morris
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582

Book Description
The said town was hard on the borders of a wood which men held to be mighty great or maybe measureless; though few indeed had entered it and they that had brought back tales wild and confused thereof.

William Morris

Author: Anna Mason
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500480508
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Marking the 125th anniversary of William Morris’s death, this is the most wide-ranging illustrated book about Morris ever published. William Morris’s interests were wide-ranging: he was a poet, writer, political and social activist, conservationist, and businessman, as well as a brilliant and original designer and manufacturer. This book explores the balance between Morris’s various spheres of activity, places his art in the context of its time, and examines his ongoing and far-reaching legacy. A pioneer of the Arts & Crafts Movement, William Morris (1834–1896) is one of the most influential designers of all time. Morris turned the tide of Victorian England against an increasingly industrialized manufacturing process toward a rediscovered respect for the skill of the maker. Morris’s whole approach still resonates today, and his designs are popular and much admired. Published to mark the 125th anniversary of Morris’s death, this book includes contributions from a wide range of Morris experts, with chapters on painting, church decoration and stained glass, interior decoration, furniture, tiles and tableware, wallpaper, textiles, calligraphy, and publishing. Additional materials include a contextualized chronology of Morris’s life and a list of public collections around the world where examples of Morris’s work may be seen today. This study is a wide- ranging, fully illustrated exploration of a great thinker and artist, and essential reading for anyone interested in the history of design.

The Last Pre-Raphaelite

Author: Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065565
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 696

Book Description
In Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century.

William Morris

Author: William Morris
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
ISBN: 9781855144941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A collection of quotations by and about William Morris, exploring his passionately held view that beautiful, functional design should be accessible to all William Morris (1834-1896) was a radical thinker whose democratic vision for society and art has continued to influence designers, artists and writers to this day. He was a gifted poet, architect, painter, writer and textile designer, who also founded the Kelmscott Press, the most famous of the Arts and Crafts private presses. Morris' ideas later came to influence numerous artists and craftspeople who sought to negotiate a viable place within the modern world in the troubled years that followed the First World War. His ideals inspired designers, including those who contributed to the 1951 Festival of Britain, with a direct sense of mission to bring the highest design standards within the reach of everyone. This collection of quotations by Morris, his friends, associates and those who came after, including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, among others, reveals and explores his passionately held view that beautiful, functional design should be accessible to all.

William Morris Full-Color Patterns and Designs

Author: William Morris
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155447
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
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.

William F. Winter and the New Mississippi

Author: Charles C. Bolton
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617037877
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 365

Book Description
The life story of the Mississippi governor known for his fight for education and racial reconciliation

Useful Work Versus Useless Toil

Author: William Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description

Time and the Tapestry

Author: John Plotz
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781593731458
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"What kind of adventure begins in the living room on a rainy Monday afternoon? It depends. Say you just found out that Granny, who raised you, is going to lose her house because there's nothing valuable left to sell except an unfinished tapestry. And say that your pet blackbird Mead starts talking and swells up to the size of large motorcycle, and that you suddenly find yourself on his back falling into what you could have sworn was just an old rug covered with pictures of knights galloping through forests ... 'Time and the tapestry' tells the story of would-be artist Jen (who's 13) and her not-quite-as-nerdy-as-he-used-to-be brother Ed (10). They find themselves adrift in 19th-century England, unable to make their way back home until they've gathered the missing pieces to make that tapestry whole"--Dust jacket front flap.