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- Human and Literature Publishing
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- 24/08/2022
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Art and the People
Protest against Capitalist Brutality
William Morris
Human and Literature Publishing
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I wish to say a few plain words on the subject of art; and since I address
myself chiefly to those who are called the working-classes, I know well that
the plainer those words are the better, since now for many years, for
centuries, the working-classes have scarcely been partakers in art of any
kind, and the phraseology of men learned in the fine arts will be strange to
you. For centuries this slavery has been added to the rest of the oppression
under which you lie, that you have been forbidden to have any share in the
intelligent production of beautiful things.
Indeed, I think it will be news to many of you who toil to live that you may
live to toil, that there either is or has been or can be any connexion between
Art and the People. It may seem to you, I can well imagine, that art is
concerned only in making luxurious toys for rich and idle persons, and that
all the working-classes have to do with it, is that some of them can earn
their poor wages by working at it as machines work, without knowing or caring
what they are doing; while now and then on holidays those of them that chance
to think of it and who live in London may stray into the National Gallery or
the British Museum, and see the carefully hoarded works of past ages, and get
from them such good as men can get who look on a book in an antiquated dialect
of their language without an interpreter between them and the past.
myself chiefly to those who are called the working-classes, I know well that
the plainer those words are the better, since now for many years, for
centuries, the working-classes have scarcely been partakers in art of any
kind, and the phraseology of men learned in the fine arts will be strange to
you. For centuries this slavery has been added to the rest of the oppression
under which you lie, that you have been forbidden to have any share in the
intelligent production of beautiful things.
Indeed, I think it will be news to many of you who toil to live that you may
live to toil, that there either is or has been or can be any connexion between
Art and the People. It may seem to you, I can well imagine, that art is
concerned only in making luxurious toys for rich and idle persons, and that
all the working-classes have to do with it, is that some of them can earn
their poor wages by working at it as machines work, without knowing or caring
what they are doing; while now and then on holidays those of them that chance
to think of it and who live in London may stray into the National Gallery or
the British Museum, and see the carefully hoarded works of past ages, and get
from them such good as men can get who look on a book in an antiquated dialect
of their language without an interpreter between them and the past.
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