Some Hints on Pattern Designing - Softcover

Morris, William

9781603550567: Some Hints on Pattern Designing

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ISBN 10: 1603550569 ISBN 13: 9781603550567

Publisher: Juniper Grove, 2007

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"...people have called this art ornamental art, though indeed all real art is ornamental." Thus begins Some Hints on Pattern Designing, a formative lecture given in 1881 by the master of decorative arts, William Morris (1834-1896). In this lecture, Morris, one of the leading founders of the British Arts & Crafts movement, discusses not only methods of pattern designing, but also the philosophy behind art, ornamentation, and the innate human desire for surface decoration. This Juniper Grove printing is a photo-reproduction of the original edition, which was printed in 1899 at the Chiswick Press.

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William Morris (1834-1896) was an accomplished writer, textile designer and artist. A utopian socialist, he was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Craft Movement, and was a founding member of the Socialist League in Britain. Greatly influenced by the medieval period, Morris helped establish the modern fantasy genre though his works The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, A Dream of John Ball, and The Well at the World s End. Authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were greatly influenced by works like The House of the Wolfings, The Roots of the Mountains, and The Wood Beyond the World. Morris was also an accomplished publisher, founding the Kelmscott Press in 1891, whose 1896 edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.

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