“The Road of War” and “The Path of Peace”: William Morris’s Representation of Violence by Eleonora Sasso

“…Mill’s comment on war, described as “an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things”, as well as Freud’s theory of war neuroses in his “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” (1915), and uses both these concepts to advance a new reading of William Morris’s literary writings focusing on violence, one which sees it as not “the road of war” but “the path of peace”. …”
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Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles (ed.), William Morris in the Twenty-First Century by Florence Boos

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John Ruskin, William Morris and Walter Pater: From Nature to Musical Harmony in the Decorative Arts by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Advocating a renewed experience of nature proper to disclose truth to the beholder, he inspired William Morris with a new form of interior design that promoted craftsmanship as a way to counter mass production and restore man’s dignity. …”
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Le texte comme simple émanation d’un contexte : étude du manifeste fondateur de la Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings by Jean-Claude Mougnibas

“…The foundation of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings by William Morris as a protest against the prevailing practice of church restoration was accompanied by his own drafting of a manifesto purporting to set out the Society’s objectives and methods. …”
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De l’unité des arts comme résistance : The Claims of Decorative Art de Walter Crane by Isabelle Cases

“…Strongly influenced by John Ruskin and William Morris, Walter Crane developed the idea of the unity of art as an essential condition for a rewarding artistic production and a satisfactory social life. …”
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Reading the Colours of Victorian Interiors: The Poetic Home Revisited by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…As a consequence, the ‘evolution’ of the colour-sense received unprecedented attention, not only from the scientists who made colour production and colour perception their new object of study, but also from artists and writers like John Ruskin or William Morris who placed colour at the centre of the creative process. …”
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1980 Nikaragua Okuryazarlık Kampanyası’ndaki Propaganda Posterlerinin Kitap Okuma Boyutunda İncelenmesi by Caner Çakı, Mustafa Karaca, Gül Çakı, Mehmet Ali Gazi

“…Bu amaçla çalışmada Amsterdam’daki Uluslararası Sosyal Tarih Enstitüsü’nden (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis) propaganda posterlerine ulaşılmış ve ulaşılan propaganda posterlerindeki görsel ve yazılı göstergeler, ABD’li dilbilimci Charles William Morris’in göstergebilimindeki üç boyutu ışığında analiz edilmiştir. …”
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Walter Crane : de l’album considéré comme un des Beaux-Arts by Isabelle Guillaume

“…Precisely, in his theoretical essays as in his practice, he worked in favor of a new configuration of the artistic field alongside William Morris. Leader of the second generation of Pre-Raphaelites and initiator of the Arts and Crafts movement, Morris advocated the abolition of the hierarchy between artistic practices in favor of the emergence of a homogeneous class of creators producing objects and artworks. …”
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