Perry Nigro
perry.nigro@northwestern.edu
847.491.7484
 

Drop-in Office Hours:

Tuesday 1-2PM at Kresge Cafe
Thursdays 3-4PM at Kresge Cafe

The seminar is intended to acquaint students with the work of William Morris and to evaluate his position in the history of modern art, poetry, design politics and environmentalism. For this purpose, we will look at, read and discuss Morris and his works from four different vantage points: 1) in the history and theory of ornament; 2) as an entrepreneur and professional artist in late Victorian England; 3) as a theorist and critic of art, design and politics; and 4) as an environmentalist, ecologist and architectural preservationist.
We will read texts by Morris, Pevsner, Thompson, Salmon, Naylor, and Eisenman, among others.

William Morris  Bird  woven wool  designed 1878