WILLIAM MORRIS, EDWARD BURNE-JONES, AND THE KELMSCOTT PRESS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE THING AND A NON-COMMODIFIED MODE OF VISION
Author:
Daniel Perry III
Name Change:
Major:
Art History
Graduation Year:
2017
Thesis Advisor:
Michael Grillo
Description of Publication:
This thesis attempts to view William Morris and his work at the Kelmscott Press as a thoroughly modern endeavor, instead of the nostalgic enterprise his work is usually branded as. To do this, this thesis inquires into Morris’s ideas about art and experience, and how these ideas are both tied to his ideas of the mediaeval and are the same ideas that will haunt modern artists throughout the twentieth century. In this thesis I argue that how Morris designed the pages produced by him and a long list of collaborators at the Kelmscott Press shows the readers/viewers of Kelmscott books a way to gain pleasure and meaning from the world in a way detached from the capitalist structures that readers/viewers would normally go through to gain these things.
Location of Publication:
- fogler
- reynolds
URL to Thesis:
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/269/