Anarchy & Beauty William Morris And His Legacy 1860 1960. Anarchy and beauty takes the reader through morris’s fascinating career, from the establishment of his decorative arts shop (later morris & co.), to his radical sexual politics and libertarianism, and the publication in 1890 of his novel news from nowhere, which envisions a utopian socialist society. Along with the art critic john ruskin, morris reinvented the idea of medieval ‘guilds’:
Review of anarchy & beauty: Anarchy and beauty takes the reader through morris’s fascinating career, from the establishment of his decorative arts shop (later morris & co.), to his radical sexual politics and libertarianism, and the publication in 1890 of his novel news from nowhere, which envisions a utopian socialist society. He even encased his copy of karl marx’s das kapital in gold.