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WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, by Philip Henderson. A biography of the 19th century English artist who excelled as a poet, philosopher, painter, architect, furniture designer and interior decorator...
...world." He had put a good deal into it. His vision of a materialist Utopia with an art-craft peasantry, and Morris himself dancing on the greensward, bordered on the ridiculous. The masterpiece printed by his Kelmscott Press was a massive edition of Chaucer, illustrated by himself and the painter Burne-Jones. It cost ? 20- probably the equivalent of a half-year's wages of one of the men who toiled in the Devonshire copper mine from which Morris derived his fortune...
...Tedders. His private life was deplorable. He married Jane Burden, a beautiful but unusually stupid woman who had been his model when he was half thinking of being a painter. The daughter of a groom, she devoted most of her life to having the vapors and impersonating one of those large-eyed, long-necked ladies in the once admired paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In fact, it was Rossetti who persuaded Jane to marry Morris. Small wonder that Morris came to regard his devious painter pal as "sometimes an angel, sometimes a damned scoundrel...
Although Katayama has succeeded in graphically linking an architect to an industrial designer, he himself rejects the separation of artists into such categories as architect, graphic designer, sculptor and painter. He describes himself as a "designer of spaces," using colors and materials which are themselves less important than the spaces he creates and manipulates...
...PAINTER by Duard G. Slattery, illustrated by Sanford McGrail (Lion; $4.50). Taken directly from the 1960 Academy Award-winning short, the book depicts an abstract artist who throws paint on a large canvas, then slices it up for sale. As much fun as the movie...