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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Courtauld Institute of Art
William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings
Interlacings: William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones has nine chapters. Of these two relate closely to essays submitted for RAE2008.
Chapter 6 is based on the essay ‘William Morris: Decoration and Materialism’, 2006.
Chapter 9 is based on ‘Fractured figures: the sculptural logic of Burne-Jones's stained glass’, 2004. Both items were revised to address the interlacing of decorative art and history painting central to the thesis of the book.
Additionally, some elements of Chapter 4 appeared in a catalogue essay not submitted for RAE2008: ‘Four Walls Morris and Ornament’, in David Mabb, William Morris, Whitworth Art Gallery, 2004 pp. 60-69.
This is a 120,000-word book comparing the output in printed textiles and wallpaper of William Morris and in painting of Burne-Jones. The book’s topic brings together the decorative arts and the fine arts. A dialogue between these is traced within their joint project. Social reference is established vis-à-vis divergent practices: warfare; body building; horticulture; angling; tattooing. Differing models of masculinity are investigated through these. Research for chapter 3, 5, 7 and 9 was undertaken in 1999- 2003 and 2006-7, for chapters 1, 4, 7 and 9 in 2003-6. The final phase of writing and picture research was undertaken in 2006-7.
