William Morris: A Life for Our Time
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394585313 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 780 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stuart J. Hecht said Five Stars. As promised. The Final Biography on Morris Most books about William Morris are like rainbows, filled with colorful images. Simply because he made so many wonderful and colorful embroideries, tapestries and patterns, and because color itself is something people like, and therefore buy.This book doesn't have many colors inside, but it contains many black and white photographs, that are of great interest for those who like to read about William Morris and . Magisterial, comprehensive, wonderfully entertaining OwlSong While there have been many fine books written about William Morris & his work, with many more undoubtedly to come, this is definitely THE biography of the man. In Fiona McCarthy he has found an intelligent, sensitive biographer who clearly admires & respects the man, but not to such a degree that she loses her objectivity & analytical powers. Everything is in balance here, and the book has the narrative quality
From Publishers Weekly An accomplished and original designer of textiles and furniture, books and typefaces, a socialist activist, poet and novelist (News from Nowhere), Morris (1834- 1896) had a "magpie mind" that sought expression in any number of media. . It also is shaped by interesting extended discussions?of the period's architecture, politics and literature?that sometimes distract from the account of the life they purportedly illuminate. MacCarthy (Eric Gill, a prize-winning biography of the sculptor), illuminates the paradoxes that shaped Morris's "painfully heroic progress through life." Morris was a manufacturer of lush housewares who rejected h
Illustrations.. A wonderfully talented designer, William Morris created a style that still lives. He was a political activist who was both a traditionalist and a founding father of British socialism. In this biography, MacCarthy brings all aspects of Morris's personality together, resulting in a perceptive, wonderfully entertaining, unfailingly readable work