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Arthur Clutton-Brock

William Morris

Through his eclecticism, William Morris (1834–1896) was one of the most emblematic personalities of the nineteenth century. Painter, architect, poet and engineer, wielding the quill as well as the brush, he jolted Victorian society by discarding standards established by triumphant industry. His commitment to the writing of the Socialist Manifesto was the logical result of the revolution he personified in his habitat, the form of his design and the colours he used. Forerunner of twentieth-century designers, he co-founded with John Ruskin the Arts and Crafts movement. As an independent man, William Morris led the way to Art Nouveau and later Bauhaus. Through the essential body of his written and visual work, Arthur Clutton-Brock’s masterwork deciphers the narrow relationship between ideals and creation, as well as between evolution and revolution.
347 бумажных страниц
Правообладатель
Parkstone International
Дата публикации оригинала
2015
Год выхода издания
2015
Издательство
Parkstone International
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  • Ольга Тоболевацитирует4 года назад
    e know from many things he said that the spectacle of our industrial society made him feel that there was something sinister in the order of the universe. The blind desire for life, which drives men to forego all that makes life worth living, seemed to him an evil thing which the men of the sagas had put away from them with all its attendant ignominy and fear.
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    f you want dirt,” he said, “you can find that in the street.”
  • Ольга Тоболевацитирует4 года назад
    but look, suppose people lived in little communities among gardens and green fields, so that they could be in the country in five minutes’ walk, and had few wants, almost no furniture, for instance, and no servants, and studied the (difficult) arts of enjoying life, and finding out what they really wanted; then I think we might hope civilisation had really begun.”

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