This document provides an overview of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement in 3 sections. It first discusses the context leading up to Morris, including the effects of industrialization and debates around the 1851 Great Exhibition. It then profiles Morris directly, highlighting his role as a socialist, designer, craftsman and printer who advocated for making everything useful and beautiful. Finally, it discusses Morris' Kelmscott Press and the private presses that followed in his footsteps after his death, seeking to historicize his impact on design.

1. William Morris
A Profusion of Culture

2. Pre-Morris:
Effects of Industrial Mechanization

3. The Great Exhibition, 1851:
Soulless Mechanization?

4. The Great Exhibition, 1851:
National Inspiration?

5. Ruskin,
Art as Religion. Beware, Industrialists!

6. Pre-Raphaelites: Hunt, Rossetti, Millais

7. Pre-Raphaelites & Romantic Idealism

8. Aestheticism: The Cult of Beauty

9. William Morris:
The Arts & Crafts Movement

10. William Morris:
Socialist, Designer, Craftsman, Printer

11. Morris:
Everything Useful and Beautiful

12. Morris:
Kelmscott Press

13. Post-Morris
The Private
Press

14. Historicizing
Morris: Design

15. Florence M. Paisey
Fall 2012