William Morris
William Morris was one of the most remarkable British artists and thinkers active in the second half of the 19th century. His enormously popular designs have continued to capture the imagination of people for well over a century.
At a time when mechanization introduced by the Industrial Revolution was increasingly inundating people’s lives with mass-produced, inferior-quality products, Morris sought to realize his own ideal of turning living into art by reviving the creative joy that accompanied day-to-day labor under the practices of medieval craft guilds, and through his comprehensive work in interior decoration.
Comprising over 85 exhibits, including wallpaper, textiles, chairs and other items of interior furnishings, as well as items related to Morris’s work for church stained glass windows, which constituted an important part of Morris’s oeuvre, this exhibition was designed to introduce the appeal of William Morris to a larger, nationwide audience, and put his work into context by showing some of it alongside examples of designs created by contemporaries.
Exhibits :
- 86 pieces (stained glass films, textile, wallpaper, tiles and others)
Catalogue Texts :
- Haruhiko Fujita
- Yasuhiro Muraoka
- Naoko Minowa
- Miki Imai
- Nozomi Hayashi
Lenders :
- private collections
Venues and durations :
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2005
- Kitami Region Museum of Science, History and Art, Hokkaido, Japan ... July 16, 2005 - August 21, 2005
- Shiodome Museum, Tokyo ... October 8, 2005 - December 4, 2005
- Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan ... December 14, 2005 - December 26, 2005
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2006
- Nagashima Museum, Kagoshima, Japan ... January 1, 2006 - February 5, 2006
- Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan ... April 15, 2006 - June 18, 2006
- Museum "EKi" Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan ... July 5, 2006 - July 30, 2006
- Kure Municipal Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan ... September 23, 2006 - November 5, 2006
Stained glass display realised in cooperation with Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. and Marking Magic Co., Ltd..
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