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- Anarchism
A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
Resource Type: Book
- 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."
- 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.
- 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?"
- 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?"
- Critical Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Essays by the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.
- Decline of the English Murder
And Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A collection of essays by George Orwell.
- Radical Perspectives in the Arts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
- Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- The Uses of Literacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1957
In this partly autobiographical book Hoggart observes the loss of an authentic popular culture and denounces the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
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