Mabb, David. 2021. 'The Kelmscott facsimile works and new book cover designs: Dialectical propositions'. In: The Kelmscott Press and Its Legacies. St Bride Foundation, London, United Kingdom 6 November 2021. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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The presentation looked at six art works made using William Morris’ Kelmscott Press facsimiles and a new series of book cover designs.

The first Kelmscott Press facsimile is from the exhibition ‘David Mabb & Henrik Schrat’, (2013), at a now defunct artists run project space Lobe, Berlin, which appropriated The Wood Beyond the World. The second work 'Announcer' appropriates the Kelmscott Chaucer was exhibited at the Focal Point Gallery (2014), and the William Morris Gallery (2015). Associated with the Focal Point Gallery exhibition a print ‘beaT bouT’ was produced also appropriating the Kelmscott Chaucer. The fourth work 'About Two Worlds' was shown at Handel Street Projects, (2016), and appropriates The Wood Beyond the World. A print was also produced for this exhibition ‘Maid with Two Squares’ which appropriates the image of the Maid from the woodcut frontispiece after a design by Edward Burne-Jones, from The Wood Beyond the World. And lastly 'Somewhere' (2017), which appropriates News from Nowhere.

The presentation ended with a recent and ongoing series of book cover designs for Haymarket Books, Chicago, Historical Materialism Book Series (2021) that cannibalise previous work using Morris wallpapers and textile designs for use as artwork for the covers.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	A one-day symposium hosted by The William Morris Society. Supported by The Morris Society in the United States.
Related URLs:	https://morrissociety.org/2021/09/07/the...
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Dates:	Date Event 6 November 2021 Completed
Event Location:	St Bride Foundation, London, United Kingdom
Date range:	6 November 2021
Item ID:	36329
Date Deposited:	14 May 2024 08:55
Last Modified:	14 May 2024 08:55
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36329

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