From the course: Graphic Design History: The Arts and Crafts Movement
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Morris & Co.
From the course: Graphic Design History: The Arts and Crafts Movement
Morris & Co.
- William Morris was one of the leaders of the Arts and Crafts movement. He had an unwavering belief that social and economic equality could be solved with skill, craft, and a return to a way of life celebrating nature rather than mass production. While many others contributed to the movement in all media, Morris is largely the seminal figure connected to it. Morris was born in 1834 and educated at Marlborough and Exeter College. He originally planned to enter a religious life as a clergyman. He had an obsessive love of the Middle Ages, reading Sir Walter Scott and visiting medieval churches. At Oxford, he met Edward Burne-Jones, who was to become his lifelong friend. Burne-Jones introduced Morris to the work of John Ruskin and his philosphy. After a tour of France in 1855 with Burne-Jones, Morris decided to give up his plan to enter the church and become an architect. Over the net three years, he changed professions from an architect to a painter and then finally to a pattern…
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