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William Morris – A Revolutionary Force in Victorian Britain
For some years Morris was mainly occupied with his different arts and his business, and still tried to live like an artist unconcerned with other matters. In 1871 he took with Rossetti a beautiful old house on the Upper Thames called Kelmscott Manor House, which he has described in News from Nowhere.
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Bauhaus : une expression d’une utopie générationnelle et d’une société
Ce livre, richement illustré et documenté, offre une vue globale de l’histoire du Bauhaus et projette un nouvel éclairage sur son évolution et sa connexion aux autres mouvements, rendant le Bauhaus plus compréhensible au lecteur.
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Bauhaus: Ausdruck einer Generationenutopie und Gesellschaft
Dieses Buch vermittelt einen Überblick über die Geschichte des Bauhauses und legt besonderen Wert auf eine umfangreiche Bilddokumentation, die Zusammenhänge und Entwicklungen nachvollziehbar macht und dem interessierten Leser über die Sprache der Dinge auch einen optischen Zugang zum Bauhaus ermöglicht.
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Bauhaus: An expression of a generational utopia and society
Using the most modern materials, the Bauhaus was born out of the precepts of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement, introducing new forms, inspired by the most ordinary of objects, into everyday life.
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William Morris (English version)
William Morris was one of the most emblematic personalities of the nineteenth century. Painter, architect, poet and engineer, wielding the quill as well as the brush, he jolted Victorian society by discarding standards established by triumphant industry. His commitment to the writing of the Socialist Manifesto was the logical result of the revolution he personified in his habitat, the form of his design and the colours he used.
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