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Date & time: Wednesday 1 February 2012; 5.30pm
Venue: Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art,
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN [map]
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Participants are encouraged to visit the exhibition ‘William Morris: Story, Memory, Myth’
at 2 Temple Place, open until 29th January 2012.
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The reading group meeting will be led by Caroline Arscott
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READINGS-
essential
- download Caroline Arscott, ‘William Morris’s tapestry: metamorphosis and prophecy in The Woodpecker (1885)’, article forthcoming in Art History.
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optional but desirable
- download Charles Harvey and Jon Press, William Morris Design and Enterprise in Victorian Britain, Manchester University Press, 1991, pp.95 -116.
- download Caroline Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society, Yale University Press, 1999, chapter 7, ‘Howard, Webb and 1 Palace Green’.
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Morris & Co, The Woodpecker, tapestry, 1885. © William Morris Gallery, London
Wood-Notes, Walter Crane
Morris & Co, The Forest, tapestry, 1887. (click image to enlarge)
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Refreshments will be served
ALL ARE WELCOME
Contact: Tammy Ho | lai_ming.ho@kcl.ac.uk
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