Inspired by the writings of social philosopher John Ruskin, William Morris (1834-1896) defined art as “the expression by man of his pleasure in labor," and dedicated himself to art inspired by ...

Created in partnership with the William Morris Gallery in London, Pioneers: John Ruskin, William Morris and the Bauhaus looks at how these innovators shaped our understanding of art and design.

Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903. The two Viennese found inspiration in Britain, where the Englishmen John Ruskin, William Morris, and Charles Robert Ashbee, and ...

The centenary of the death of John Ruskin has helped provoke a renewed interest in his works, including several biographies and an exhibition at the Tate Britain art gallery called Ruskin, Turner ...

Letters of John Ruskin. By John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton. May 1904 Issue. Share. Save. 1855-1857. ... Rossetti, and for a time William Morris and Burne-Jones.

The Arts and Crafts movement flourished in Britain in the 1880s, promoted by Ruskin, the great Victorian thinker and writer, and Morris, a craftsman and designer renowned for his inspiration from ...

Morris looked to John Ruskin for support, asking him in July if he could reprint a passage from Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture, which had advocated day-to-day repair rather than over-zealous ...

WILLIAM MORRIS, who was already a poet, painter, designer and translator of medieval Icelandic sagas, began to read the work of Karl Marx, whom he never met, early in 1882, when he was in his late ...

IN 1892 Kelmscott Press, the creation of that century’s pioneering communist designer William Morris, manufactured an edition of John Ruskin’s The Nature of Gothic. “The lesson that Ruskin here ...

John Ruskin, one of the 19th century’s most tumultuous minds on x (opens in a new window) John Ruskin, ... in William Morris’s lovely vellum-bound Kelmscott edition.

What do Bertrand Russell, William Blake, John Ruskin, William Cobbett and John Stuart Mill have in common? The answer is that they never went to school. Yes, many of our greatest and most ...