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William Morris 1834-1896

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William Morris 1834-1896

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  1. William Morris William Morris 1834-1896

  2. William Morris " How I long to keep the world from narrowing on me, and to look at things bigly & kindly!" (William Morris)

  3. William Morris Born: 24 March 1834 Place of Birth:Elm House in Walthamstow, England Died: 3 October 1896 Place of Death:Kelmscott House in Hammersmith, England

  4. William Morris LIFE, ART and POLICY IN THE POINT OF HIS VIEW

  5. ''I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few or freedom for a few,'' “...made by the people and for the people, a joy to the maker and the user.'' William Morris “...I will now let my claims for decent life stand as I have made them. To sum them up in brief, they are: first, a healthy body; second, an active mind in sympathy with the past, the present and the future; thirdly, occupation fit enough for a healthy body and an active mind; and fourthly, a beautiful world to live in”

  6. His political beliefs were bound up with his art: under the Victorian system, colour and individuality were leeched from life. Now a committed socialist, it bothered Morris that only the well-off could afford the work he produced. Throughout the 1870s he produced a string of translations and poems. At the same time he became interested in the cause of Socialism. He helped to form the Socialist League, and was at one point arrested and committed for trial after a demonstration. Morris used his public popularity in court in defence of himself and his colleagues. He wrote essays, pamphlets and speeches as well as songs and verse. During the 1880s he was probably the most active propagandist for the socialist cause, giving hundreds of lectures and speeches throughout the country. William Morris

  7. The Arts and Crafts Movement refers to the loosely-linked group of craftsmen, artists, designers and architects who aimed to raise the status of the applied arts to that of the fine arts. Largely inspired by William Morris, other key artists in the movement included William de Morgan, Henry Holiday, Walter Crane, the architect and designer Philip Webb and Christopher Whall, Alexander Fisherwas the leading Arts and Crafts enameller. Morris turned from the real world, in which machinery and convention were overtaking sensibility and life, to portray worlds of clear air and water, which are drenched with bursting colourful life. He peopled these worlds with leaders and warlords, robbers and farmers, witches and thralls, heroes and heroines. The water-coloured worlds are based on the experiences of his lifetime: he knew ­ having studied politics, history and craftsmanship, as well as spending his formative years in the countryside of the mid-nineteenth century ­ what changes the absence of technology would make. William Morris

  8. William Morris TYPOGRAPHY

  9. The Kelmscott Press In 1890 Morris founded the Kelmscott Press in premises near his last home at Kelmscott House in Hammersmith (now the headquarters of the William Morris Society). Morris designed three typefaces for the Press: Golden, Chaucer, and Troy. These were inspired respectively by fifteenth-century Italian and German typography. In all, sixty-six volumes were printed by the Kelmscott Press, the most impressive of which was its magnificent edition of Chaucer which was published in 1896. Morris died at Kelmscott House on 3 October 1896. William Morris

  10. William Morris

  11. Morris’s The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue was privately printed for him at the Chiswick Press in a replica of a Caxton typeface. The book was never offered for sale, and Morris did not repeat the experiment, because shortly thereafter he began to design his own types. William Morris

  12. An enlarged photograph of a page in Pliny's Historia naturalis, printed by Jenson in 1476; Morris used this and other similar photographs as an aid in designing his Golden type. William Morris

  13. Morris's roman, the Golden type, was often combined with elaborate ornaments which he also designed. "I did not copy it slavishly; in fact, my Roman type, especially in the lower case, tends rather more to the Gothic than does Jenson's." William Morris

  14. One of Edward Prince's bills for cutting the Golden type (described here as "English Old Face"). William Morris

  15. Emery Walker photographed a lowercase alphabet designed by Morris and had it pasted on this sheet in order to form a passage from Chaucer; then he photographically reduced it and photoengraved the image. This was a very early version of the Troytype. William Morris

  16. William Morris Troy type

  17. Troy type William Morris

  18. An advertisement for the ATF Satanick type, one of many American imitations of Morris's typography. William Morris

  19. William Morris mordfrt

  20. William Morris jason

  21. chronicle William Morris

  22. atalanta William Morris

  23. William Morris chivalry

  24. William Morris cupid

  25. William Morris venüs

  26. William Morris news

  27. William Morris

  28. William Morris rapunzel

  29. William Morris percevyle

  30. William Morris ysambrc

  31. William Morris siguard

  32. William Morris flora

  33. William Morris WHY DID MORRIS WRITE FANTASY?

  34. “... It is the childlike part of us that produces works of imagination." William Morris "...but what Romance means is the capacity for a true conception of history,of making the past part of the present." William Morris

  35. "Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme,Beats with light wing against the ivory gate,Telling a tale not too importunateTo those who in the sleepy region stay,Lulled by the singer of an empty day." William Morris Earthly paradise

  36. "Where, in The Earthly Paradise, pleasure had always seemed an uneasy dream on the edge of a bitter reality, we are (in the prose romances) always on the edge of awakening to the freshness and fulfillment of life... This freshness, this sense of growth in the June English countryside, of the continuity of life, is the reality beneath the romance. This is the Morris whom Yeats knew and described as 'the Happiest of Poets’...” William Morris Earthly paradise

  37. Earthly paradise William Morris

  38. William Morris Love is enough

  39. In the spring of 1890 he wrote a directly fantastic romance: The Story Of TheGlittering Plain. Serialised initially in four parts, it would be the first book printed by another famous Morris creation: The Kelmscott Press. Books published by the Kelmscott Press (there were to be53 titles in 66 volumes in the years 1891 to 1898) have been called the most beautiful books ever printed, and the Kelmscott Chaucer is justly famous. William Morris The glittering plain

  40. William Morris The glittering plain

  41. William Morris The glittering plain

  42. Hours later, as you lay the book down and begin your search for the rest of his work, the questions begin ­ who was William Morris? Why did he write such works? Are there themes in his work? Did his work alter as he grew older? One central truth is already obvious to you. William Morris was an artist. William Morris Ian Covell William Morris : Dreamer of Dreams

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