tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post237684727474679704..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Images for UtopiaTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-25442782475278535202015-04-25T08:44:00.038-07:002015-04-25T08:44:00.038-07:00We could take your idea not so much as a wooduct, ...We could take your idea not so much as a wooduct, Tony, but rather as a photograph for a book cover. I think it would be livelier and more apt than: 1.George Jack’s stone plaque of Morris seated on the ground at Kelmscott (used for Clive Wilmer’s Penguin edition of ‘News from Nowhere’); 2.Frederick H. Evans’s 1896 platinum print of a view from a window at Kelmscott looking out to the barn (on the front of David Leopold’s Oxford World’s Classics editon); 3.the 1897 photograph of ‘Inside the clock of Big Ben’, which is, very peculiarly, used as the cover image of Stephen Arata’s otherwise excellent Broadview edition. Maybe they’ve got Morris’s utopia mixed up here with Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’, in which Big Ben is an important presence. So, yes, by all means let’s have an edition of ‘News from Nowhere’ with Philippa and the other carvers busily house-building on the front.<br /><br />TTnoreply@blogger.com