From Art to Politics
| Author | : Lawrence Goldman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Politics in art |
| ISBN | : 9780903283236 |
The Art And Politics Of William Morris
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William Morris' Position between Art and Politics
| Author | : Grzegorz Zinkiewicz |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2017-06-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1443873713 |
This volume re-evaluates the position of William Morris regarding contemporary perspectives on his artistic and political endeavours. Special emphasis is placed on the concepts and territories that lie in-between, both literally and metaphorically. This “in-between-ess” is the most remarkable quality of Morris, and secures him a unique position among his contemporaries, as well as inspiring new generations of scholars. Paradoxically, however, this aspect also contributes to a certain marginalization of Morris in studies devoted to “Eminent Victorians”. Instead of speaking of ruptures, gaps or lacunas, the point of view adopted here explores the undefined terrenes situated between art and politics, viewing them as vantage points and departure planes which cement Morris’s universe. At the same time, the book also argues that this universe has always existed in its specific shape and form, while the “poetic upholster”, as Morris was ironically labelled, only discovered and explored different points on the map of a space that could have no limits and boundaries. The book offers new insights and avenues to supplement existing scholarship on Morris, including spatiotemporal aspects of his work and the relationship between art and politics.
Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain
| Author | : Lucy Hartley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2017-08-03 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1107184088 |
This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.
Anarchy & Beauty
| Author | : Fiona MacCarthy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Artisans |
| ISBN | : 9780300209464 |
Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, October 16, 2014-January 11, 2015.
Teaching William Morris
| Author | : Jason D. Martinek |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2019-10-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1683930746 |
A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contributions to several different fields of study? And how, within the exigencies of the modern educational system, can teachers capture the interdisciplinary spirit of Morris, whose various contributions hang so curiously together? Teaching William Morris gathers together the work of nineteen Morris scholars from a variety of fields, offering a wide array of perspectives on the challenges and the rewards of teaching William Morris. Across this book’s five sections—“Pasts and Presents,” “Political Contexts,” “Literature,” “Art and Design,” and “Digital Humanities”—readers will learn the history of Morris’s place in the modern curriculum, the current state of the field for teaching Morris’s work today, and how this pedagogical effort is reaching well beyond the college classroom.
William Morris and the Aesthetic Constitution of Politics
| Author | : Bradley J. Macdonald |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2024-12-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1666976059 |
While William Morris (1834-1896) is generally considered one of the most important cultural and political figures of late Victorian England, there is avid disagreement on the way in which we can understand the interconnections between his aesthetic commitments (as a celebrated poet and decorative artist influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism) and his later revolutionary socialist advocacy. As opposed to dominant interpretations within Morris scholarship, Bradley J. Macdonald argues for the importance of understanding the role a “critical notion of beauty” had in moving Morris toward a theory of socialism that took seriously the way in which desire, pleasure, and “beauty” (as applied to all externals of human life, not just art works) could be regenerated only through radical transformations in socioeconomic life. Consequently , William Morris's development represents an interesting example of cultural politics. Given this genealogy, Macdonald clarifies, Morris’s mature political theory incorporated a very important commitment to not just economic justice, but also, among other distinctive applications ; ecological sustainability, making him one of the first eco-socialist theorists within the Western tradition, and also an early proponent of what is today known as “degrowth communism.”
The Routledge Companion to William Morris
| Author | : Florence S. Boos |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total 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.
Victorian Radicals
| Author | : Martin Ellis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2018-10-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781885444479 |
Drawn from Birmingham Museums Trust's incomparable collection of Victorian art and design, this exhibition will explore how three generations of young, rebellious artists and designers, such as Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, revolutionized the visual arts in Britain, engaging with and challenging the new industrial world around them.
William Morris
| Author | : Fiona MacCarthy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total 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.
