William Morris and the Aesthetic Constitution of Politics

Bradley J. Macdonald

doi:10.5771/9781666976052

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Edition: 2/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-7604-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-7605-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 220
Product Type: Monograph

Preface No access Pages i - x
1. Art and the Political Imperative of Beauty No access
2. Morris’s Utopian Matrix and Political Action No access
3. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. 1. Art as Ideological Practice No access
  2. Art, Autonomy, and Critical Consciousness No access
  3. Aesthetic Text as Politicizing Practice No access
2. Learning from the Aestheticist Position: Pitfalls and Potentials No access
3. Morris, Cultural Politics, and a Materialist Aestheticist Position No access
4. Notes No access
1. Class Conflict and the Discourse on Labor: The Great Exhibition in Context No access
2. The Great Exhibition, I: Bourgeois Dreams and Technological Utopias No access
3. The Great Exhibition, II: Bourgeois Hegemony and Working-Class Struggles No access
4. The Great Exhibition and Cultural Politics No access
5. Notes No access
1. Situating Ruskin, I: The Changing Politics of Cultural Criticism No access
2. Situating Ruskin, II: The Concept of Pleasurable Labor in Working-Class Political Discourses No access
3. 1. Painting Morals: Modern Painters and Ruskin’s Earlier Formulations No access
  2. The Critical Light of Architecture: Ornamental Beauty and the Enjoyment Criteria of Aesthetic Worth No access
  3. Venetian Archaeologies: Labor and the Nature of Gothic Architecture No access
4. Concluding Remarks: Ruskin and the Politics of Aesthetic Theory No access
5. Notes No access
1. Morris’s Early Life and Aesthetic Education No access
2. Constituting Aesthetic Self-understandings, I: Medievalism and Cultural Politics No access
3. Constituting Aesthetic Self-Understandings, II: Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Morris’s Poetry of Romance No access
4. Notes No access
1. Defining Art: Aesthetic Decay and the Necessity of Art No access
2. Representing Labor in Aesthetic Theory, I: “Art of the People” and Pleasurable Labor No access
3. Representing Labor in Aesthetic Theory, II: Working-Class Struggles and Socialist Ideals No access
4. Notes No access
1. Art and Socialism: Morris’s Initial Characterizations of Socialist Ideals and Tactics No access
2. Morris and “The Revival of Socialism”: Historical Precedents and New Directions in the 1880s No access
3. Morris’s Constructive Socialism, I: Capitalist Degradation, Communism, and Utopian Practicalities No access
4. Morris’s Constructive Socialism, II: Art, Pleasure, and Natural Beauty No access
5. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 203 - 212
Index No access Pages 213 - 218
About the Author No access Pages 219 - 220