The Gardens Of William Morris

Author : Jill Douglas-Hamilton Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon,Jill Duchess of Hamilton,Penny Hart,John Simmons
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0711226091

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The Gardens of William Morris by Jill Douglas-Hamilton Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon,Jill Duchess of Hamilton,Penny Hart,John Simmons Pdf

William Morris, designer, poet, socialist – nature lover. This volume focuses on Morris's vision of the garden, uncovering the principles which had such a profound effect on garden designers such as Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson. Guided by Morris and the plants which appear in his work, this book endorses gardening with indigenous plants, giving information, both historical and practical, for gardening the William Morris way.

Author : Derek W. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : UOM:39015038601020

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The Flowers of William Morris by Derek W. Baker Pdf

A beautifully illustrated survey of the premiere Arts and Crafts artist.

Author : Rowan Bain
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500480458

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William Morris's Flowers by Rowan Bain Pdf

A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to designs by William Morris that incorporate flowers—a central motif in his oeuvre and one that played a part in the majority of his designs. The leading figure of the Arts and Crafts Movement, William Morris (1834–1896) is one of the best-known and most popular of all British designers. A passionate advocate of craftsmanship over mass production, he designed a huge variety of objects, but it is his spectacular carpet, fabric, and wallpaper patterns that have continued to capture the popular imagination and influence interior designers and the decorative arts. Around six hundred such designs are attributed to Morris, most of which are based on nature, including trees, plants, and flowers. This beautifully designed, accessibly priced gift book offers a wealth of designs by Morris where flowers are the principal motif. The text traces the origins of Morris’s flower-based designs: his own gardens at the Red House in Kent; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century herbals; illuminated medieval manuscripts; late medieval and Renaissance tapestries; and the range of decorated objects, particularly from the Islamic world, that Morris studied at the South Kensington Museum, now the Victoria and Albert Museum. Authored by Rowan Bain, senior curator at the William Morris Gallery, and lavishly illustrated with over one hundred color illustrations, William Morris’s Flowers will both inform and delight.

Author : Florence S. Boos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351859011

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The Routledge Companion to William Morris by Florence S. Boos Pdf

William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels, family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations, political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic. Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry, translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and Victorian and utopian studies.

Author : Judith B. Tankard
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015041363758

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The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman by Judith B. Tankard Pdf

Illustrated with original photographs of Shipman's superb gardens - many by photographer Mattie Edwards Hewitt which have never been previously published - and new photographs by Carol Betsch which were specially commissioned for this volume, the book documents in fascinating detail the life and work of one of America's most important and influential garden designers.

Author : Judith B. Tankard
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604698206

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Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement by Judith B. Tankard Pdf

“The ever-alluring Arts and Crafts garden…is profoundly relevant to our 21st-century needs.” —Sam Watters, author of Gardens for a Beautiful America In Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during this iconic movement. Tankard presents a selection of houses and gardens of the era from Great Britain and North America. With almost 300 illustrations and photographs, and an emphasis on the diversity of designers who helped forge the movement, Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement is an essential resource for this truly distinct approach to garden design.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : London : Brentham Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UCSD:31822015908726

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The Beauty of Life by William Morris Pdf

Author : Sarah Rutherford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780747813453

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The Arts and Crafts Garden by Sarah Rutherford Pdf

The Arts and Crafts Movement espoused values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty quite counter to Victorian and Edwardian industrialism. Though most famous for its architecture, furniture and ornamental work, between the 1890s and the 1930s the movement also produced gardens all over Britain whose designs, redolent of a lost golden era, had worldwide influence. These designs, by luminaries such as Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Edwin Lutyens, were engaging and romantic combinations of manor-house garden formalism and the naive charms of the cottage garden – but from formally clipped topiary to rugged wild borders, nothing was left to chance. Sarah Rutherford here explores the winding paths and meticulously shaped hedges, the gazebos and gateways, the formal terraces and the billowing border plantings that characterised the Arts and Crafts garden, and directs readers and gardeners to where they can visit and be inspired by these beautiful works of art.

Author : Derek W. Baker
Publisher : Barn Elms Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019182265

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The Flowers of William Morris by Derek W. Baker Pdf

This title takes a comprehensive look at Morris's gardens and flowers, setting out to shed new light on the life and work of this passionate yet practical individual. It looks at his childhood, his student days at Oxford before turning to his own homes and gardens such as Red House and the Abbey Works at Merton. Morris's own words and those of his daughter May show his very personal approach to flowers and gardens and how his ideas anticipated the theories of William Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll.

Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571265831

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William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy Pdf

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and described by A.S.Byatt as 'one of the finest biographies ever published', this is Fiona MacCarthy's magisterial biography of William Morris, legendary designer and father of the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement. 'Thrilling, absorbing and majestic.' Independent 'Wonderfully ambitious ... The definitive Morris biography.' Sunday Times 'Delicious and intelligent, full of shining detail and mysteries respected.' Daily Telegraph ' Oh, the careful detail of this marvellous book! . . . A model of scholarly biography'. New Statesman Since his death in 1896, William Morris has been celebrated as a giant of the Victorian era. But his genius was so multifaceted and so profound that its full extent has rarely been grasped. Many people may find it hard to believe that the greatest English designer of his time - possibly of all time - could also be internationally renowned as a founder of the socialist movement, and ranked as a poet with Tennyson and Browning. In her definitive biography - insightful, comprehensive, addictively readable - the award-winning Fiona MacCarthy gives us a richly detailed portrait of Morris's complex character for the first time, shedding light on his immense creative powers as artist and designer of furniture, fabrics, wallpaper, stained glass, tapestry, and books; his role as a poet, novelist and translator; on his psychology and his emotional life; his frenetic activities as polemicist and reformer; and his remarkable circle of friends, literary, artistic and political, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. It is a masterpiece of biographical art.

Author : Tessa Wild
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1781300550

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William Morris and his Palace of Art by Tessa Wild Pdf

William Morris and his Palace of Art is a comprehensive new study of Red House, Bexleyheath; the only house commissioned by William Morris and the first independent architectural work of his close friend, Philip Webb. Morris moved in to Red House as an ebullient young man of 26, with an independent income and a head brimming with ideas and the persistent question of ‘how best to live? Red House, together with its Pre-Raphaelite garden, stands as the physical embodiment of his exuberant spirit, youthful ambition, passionate medievalism, creativity and great sense of possibility. For five intense years from 1860–5, it was a place of halcyon days – happy family life, loyal friendship, good humoured competition, and the jovial campaign of decorating; furnishing the house and designing the garden. Drawing on a wealth of new physical evidence, this book argues that Red House constitutes an ambitious and critical chapter in his design history. It will re-consider the inspiration it provided for the founding of ‘the Firm’ of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (later Morris & Co.), in 1861, and the vital collaboration of Webb, Burne-Jones, Rossetti and their intimate circle in realising Morris’s dream for his house.

Author : Aymer Vallance
Publisher : London : G. Bell
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Artists
ISBN : BSB:BSB11788804

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William Morris, His Art, His Writings, and His Public Life by Aymer Vallance Pdf

Author : Walter Crane
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547173533

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A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden by Walter Crane Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden" by Walter Crane. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Peter Faulkner,Peter Preston,William Morris Society
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0859895777

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William Morris by Peter Faulkner,Peter Preston,William Morris Society Pdf

This well illustrated book celebrates every aspect of the wide-ranging achievements of William Morris - writer, designer, cultural critic, revolutionary socialist - with particular emphasis on their relevance to our own times. The book makes available up-to-date Morris scholarship in accessible form. Written by a group of international scholars who took part in a conference marking the centenary of the death of Morris in 1896, the book has sections devoted to Morris and Literature (covering texts from The Earthly Paradise to the late romances); Morris, the Arts & Crafts and the New World (including discussions of his influence in Rhode Island, Boston, Ontario and New Zealand); and Morris, Gender and Politics (with fresh consideration of his relation to Victorian ideas of manliness and of the particular qualities of his anti-statist politics). The latter section also draws attention to a hitherto unknown play by Morris's daughter May and concludes with an account of his biographer, the late E.P. Thompson.

Author : Pamela Todd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Arts and crafts movement
ISBN : 0500290237

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William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Home by Pamela Todd Pdf

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