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  • Redesigning the World

  • William Morris, the 1880s and the Arts and Crafts
  • By: Peter Stansky
  • Narrated by: Michael Bonner
  • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Socialist, philosopher, and poet William Morris (1834 - 1896) was at the center of the design renaissance of the 1880s, not only because of his celebrated hostility to aspects of machine culture, but because of his success as a designer and businessman whose work had enormous influence on the next generation of artists, craftsmen, and designers.

"A very readable and enjoyable book. It is not so much a biography of William Morris as a consideration of him as a political and esthetic phenomenon and as the founder of a number of organizations - the Century Guild, the Arts Workers Guild, and the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Dr. Stansky examines them with a learning that is never pedantic, frequently humorous and always intelligent." (The New York Times book review)

Peter Stansky is professor of history at Stanford University and the author of numerous works on British history.
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Fine Story, but Self-Conscious Reading

The text is good, there are some weak spots (esp. about the Morris wallpaper) but what made it hard to listen to was the reading. When he does German authors, in translation, mind you, he puts on a Monty Python type German voice. When he does English voices, he sounds prissy, supercilious, and affected. Simpler would have been better.

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