Description
| Product ID: | 9783836561631 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | SK |
| Series: | Basic Art |
| Title: | Morris |
| Authors: | Author: Charlotte & Peter Fiell, TASCHEN |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Individual designers or design groups, Biography: arts and entertainment, Individual designers, Biography: arts & entertainment, England, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating William Morris was a polymath designer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, associated with England’s Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as well as Arts and Crafts movement. His prolific design work included tiles, embroidery, tapestries, wallpaper, and carpets and championed handcraftsmanship, natural dyes, “art for all”, and beautiful patterns of subtly stylized natural forms. William Morris (1834–1896) was one of the greatest creative figures of the 19th century. As a visionary designer, as well as a manufacturer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, he pioneered the Arts and Crafts movement of the Victorian era, and left an extraordinary influence on architecture, textile, and interior design.This richly illustrated book offers a suitably beautiful introduction to Morris’s colorful life and all aspects of his design work, including interiors, tiles, embroidery, tapestries, carpets, and calligraphy. Though best known in his lifetime as a poet and author, it is these exquisite designs that secured Morris’s posthumous reputation. As page after page dazzles with their beautiful patterns and forms, we explore the pioneering craftsmanship and natural motifs that inspired them, as well as Morris’s remarkable cultural legacy, through British textiles, Bauhaus, and even modern environmentalism. |
| Imprint Name: | Taschen GmbH |
| Publisher Name: | Taschen GmbH |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-10-19 |
