Arte y artesanía

by William Morris

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Genres: Art

271 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2011

About the author

William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball and the utopian News from Nowhere. He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with the movement over goals and methods by the end of that decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.

Reviews

[Halia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pas ouf, plutôt moyen même.
Ne pousse pas ses idées jusqu’à la fin, bateaux.

[Doyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Les textes inclus dans cette édition "L'Art : idéal socialiste" et "L'Art en Ploutocratie" sont bien plus intéressants que celui liminaire qui donne son titre à l'ouvrage.

A rebours de l'exaltation de l'idée d'une histoire "progressiste" de la peinture (principalement visée par ses attaques) qui serait une succession de génies individuels, toujours plus libérés des conventions, alors que cela tend plutôt à prouver la raréfaction du génie humain présent dans l'histoire populaire de l'artisanat, la destruction des guildes, la trop grande spécialisation propre à la modernité mercantile et productiviste et la division (dissociation ?) toujours plus grande du corps et de l'esprit introduit par la modernité cartésienne.

Morris n'a heureusement pas eu le temps de constater l'usage purement mercantiliste d'un certain art contemporain comme source d'investissement sur de "futurs talents" pour les riches collectionneurs/galeristes et l'accomplissement seul d'un art des élites, si l'on peut encore parler d'art.

Dommage qu'il professe la nécessité - propre aux "Lumières" - de dominer la Nature, entérinant comme eux un peu plus la dissociation rationnaliste et, par ailleurs, quelques remarques racistes.

[Lou · Rating 2 out of 5]

( Lu pour les cours )
Ya des idées intéressantes mais je suis pas d’accord avec tout. Je trouve que ça manquait d’exemple concret, ça restait assez flou.