The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003. Paperback. VG. Color pictorial glued glossy wraps. 176 pp., 128 mostly color plates. Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name, organized by the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif., and held at the Library, Nov. 8, 2003-Apr. 4, 2004, and at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., Oct. 14, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005./ Includes bibliographical references (page 173) and index. Contents as follows: Introduction / Diane Waggoner -- William Morris : a life in design ; Firm : Morris & Company / Pat Kirkham -- Stained glass & church decoration ; Decoration of houses ; Art of the book ; John Henry Dearle / Diane Waggoner -- Things that might be : British design after Morris / Gillian Naylor -- Two sides of the river : Morris & American arts and crafts / Edward R. Bosley. "William Morris, leader of the British Arts and Crafts Movement, was a man of tremendous energies, his accomplishments astonishing in their range and depth. He became successively a poet, embroiderer, pattern designer, calligrapher, dyer, weaver, translator, architectural preservationist, socialist, book publisher and printer. As the head of the internationally successful Morris & Company, he devoted himself to the decorative arts. His influence was wide and long-lasting, on both sides of the Atlantic."--Jacket.