William Morris' Position between Art and Politics
William Morris' Position between Art and Politics

Author: Grzegorz Zinkiewicz

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1443873713

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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.

Art Under Plutocracy
Art Under Plutocracy

Author: William Morris

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13:

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Dive into the 27-page classic "Art Under Plutocracy" by William Morris, a thought-provoking exploration of art's role and challenges in a society dominated by wealth. Written in the 1890s, Morris delves into the intersection of art, society, and economics. His insights and critiques remain relevant, making this a must-read for art enthusiasts and historians alike.

Victorian Radicals
Victorian Radicals

Author: Martin Ellis

Publisher:

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781885444479

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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.

Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture
Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture

Author: Allison Lee Palmer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-07-26

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1538122960

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Romanticism is multifaceted, and a wide range of nostalgic, emotional, and exotic concerns were expressed in such styles and movements as the Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, Orientalism, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Some movements were regional and subject-specific, such as the Hudson River School of landscape painting in the United States and the German Nazarene movement, which focused primarily on religious art in Rome. The movements range across Western Europe and include the United States. This dictionary will provide a fuller historical context for Romanticism and enable the reader to identify major trends and explore artists of the period. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on major artists of the romantic era as well as entries on related art movements, styles, aesthetic philosophies, and philosophers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Romantic art.

William Morris and the Aesthetic Constitution of Politics
William Morris and the Aesthetic Constitution of Politics

Author: Bradley J. Macdonald

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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In this book, Bradley Macdonald offers a brilliant reappraisal of one of the most influential and revered British intellectuals of the Victorian age. William Morris was, by turns, an artist, writer, social critic, and political radical. Here, Macdonald focuses on the interplay between Morris' aesthetic vision and his socialist ideology. He argues compellingly that, because these two sides of Morris' personality have generally been examined by art or literary historians and social theorists respectively, their integral relationship has often been lost sight of.

Marxism and the History of Art
Marxism and the History of Art

Author: Andrew Hemingway

Publisher: Pluto Press

Published: 2006-07-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780745323299

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This unique book is the first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. Although the aesthetic was a crucial part of Marx and Engels’s thought, they left no full statement on the arts. Although there is an abundant scholarship on Marxist approaches to literature, the historiography of the visual arts has been largely neglected. This book encompasses a range of influential thinkers and historians including William Morris, Mikhail Lifshits, Frederick Antal, Francis Klingender, Max Raphael, Meyer Schapiro, Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre and Arnold Hauser. It also addresses the heritage of the New Left. In the spirit of Marxism, the authors interpret the achievements and limitations of Marxist art history in relation to the historical and political circumstances of its production, providing an indispensable introduction to contemporary radical practices in the field.

The Cambridge Companion to William Morris
The Cambridge Companion to William Morris

Author: Marcus Waithe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-05-23

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1108944698

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In his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journalist, weaver, bookmaker, and businessman. This volume draws together influential voices from different disciplines who have participated in the recent critical, political, and curatorial revival of his work, with essays exploring the contemporary resonance of his exceptional legacy. As a critic of capitalism, his thinking has thrived in these years of financial crisis; as a theorist of work and craftsmanship, his legacy interacts with a more recent ethics of making that questions the values of 'off-shored' production; and as a protector of landscape and buildings Morris's concern with what is precious strikes a chord in our age of environmental crisis. At the same time, a careful and scholarly approach observes the particularity of Morris's context, in a way that confounds the 'false friends' of hasty historical reception and reveals unexpected connections.

Art and Forbidden Fruit
Art and Forbidden Fruit

Author: John Y. Le Bourgeois

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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Morris's anthology presents the religious and philosophical thought of Chesterton in the aphoristic form in which it was conceived. (Christian)