1. About Looking
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   
2. Art and Labour
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1884
   Says Morris: "By art, I do not mean only pictures and sculpture, nor only these and architecture, that is beautiful building properly ornamented; these are only a portion of art, which comprises, as I understand the word a great deal more; beauty produced by the labour of man both mental and bodily, the expression of the interest man takes in the life of man upon the earth with all its surroundings, in other words the human pleasure of life is what I mean by art."
   
3. Art and Socialism
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1884
   Morris sees work as a necessity of human life, not merely as a means of obtaining a livelihood. Morris insists that only socialism can restore work to its proper, central position.
   
4. Art Under Plutocracy
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1884
   Morris asks "What kind of an account shall we be able to give to those who come after us of our dealings with the earth, which our forefathers handed down to us still beautiful, in spite of all the thousands of years of strife and carelessness and selfishness?"
   
5. Art, Wealth, and Riches
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1883
   A lecture by William Morris, delivered in Manchester in 1883. Morris poses the question "Is art to be limited to a narrow class who only care for it in a very languid way, or is it to be the solace and pleasure of the whole people?"
   
6. The Female Body in Western Culture
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1986
   The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, inspiriing both attraction and fear, seen as both beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and evil. In this book, twenty-three scholars and critics explore these representations and their implications for contemporary art and culture.
7. Ways of Seeing
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1972
   
8. The William Morris Internet Archive
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   A subarchive of the Marxists Internet Archive, featuring the works of the English socialist, writer, and artist William Morris.
   

Experts on Art in the Sources Directory

1. Artscape
2. Brandon University
3. Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)
4. Sistering: A Woman's Place
5. The University of Western Ontario