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Publication Date
[2013], c1996
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1 streaming video file (57 min.) : sd., col.
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The life of William Morris was a crusade against the ugliness of the Industrial Revolution. In this program, art historian Douglas Skeggs addresses the many achievements of the boisterous and energetic "Topsy," 19th-century Great Britain's most influential designer, founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement, socialist reformer, and Tennyson's heir to the position of Poet Laureate-which he declined. Topics from every period of his life are discussed...
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Publication Date
2006?]
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80 p. : col. ill.
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William Morris (1834-1896), par son éclectisme, fut l'une des personnalités emblématiques du XIXe siècle.Peintre, architecte, poète et ingénieur, maniant avec autant de talent la plume que le pinceau, il bouleversa la société victorienne en refusant les standards instaurés par l'industrie conquérante. Son engagement dans la rédaction du manifeste socialiste fut la suite naturelle de cette révolution qu'il incarna dans l'habitat,...
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Publication Date
c2001
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176 p.
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This early work by William Morris was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. William Morris was born in London, England in 1834. Arguably best known as a textile designer, he founded a design partnership which deeply influenced the decoration of churches and homes during the early 20th century. However, he is also considered an important Romantic writer and pioneer of the modern fantasy...
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2015.
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1 online resource (411 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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Focuses on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris. Standing on the cusp of a new wave of scholarship, this book presents an exciting convergence of views among internationally renowned scholars in the field of Victorian Studies.
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Classic biography of the great Victorian poet, designer and socialist. Published a few years after Morris' death, it chronicles his childhood, days at Oxford, forays into art and literature, embrace of socialism, involvement with the Arts and Crafts movement, founding of the Kelmscott Press, much more. 22 black-and-white illus.
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Studies in English Literature volume 92
Publication Date
1975.
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1 online resource (144 pages).
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No detailed description available for "An "Idle Singer" and his audience".
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c2001
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740 p.
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The epic fantasy novel that defined the genre, now in one volume. As the youngest son of a king, Ralph of Upmeads is expected to forsake adventure for the safety of home. But the call of the Well at the World's End is too powerful to resist, and Ralph disobeys his parents in order to seek out his true destiny in its magical waters. The journey is long and arduous as the well lies on the far side of a distant mountain range and the lands beyond Upmeads...
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c1977
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x, 829 p. ; 25 cm.
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William Morris-the great 19th-century craftsman, designer, poet and writer, remains a monumental figure whose influence resonates powerfully today. As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopian News from Nowhere), his concern with artistic and human values led him to cross what he called the "river of fire" and become a committed socialist, committed not to some theoretical formula but to the day by day struggle of working women and men in...
18) Arts & Crafts
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„Bewahren Sie nichts in Ihren Häusern auf, was Sie nicht als nützlich erachten oder wirklich schön finden."
Allein dieses Zitat von William Morris könnte schon als erklärende Zusammenfassung der Arts and Crafts-Bewegung dienen, die in England eine Reform des Kunstgewerbes hervorrief. Diese von John Ruskin gegründete und von William Morris erst richtig vorangetriebene Bewegung Arts and Crafts brachte revolutionäre Ideen in das viktorianische...
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[2012]
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199 p. : col. ill.
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"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in England. Founded by John Ruskin, then put into practice by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts movement promoted revolutionary ideas in Victorian England. In the middle of the "soulless" Industrial Era, when...
