Aesthetic Sensuous Community in the Lesser Arts: William Morris's Critique on Modernity

Ying Lin

doi:10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470206.20240802

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Aesthetic Sensuous Community in the Lesser Arts: William Morris's Critique on Modernity

Volume 8, Issue 2

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Aesthetic Sensuous Community in the Lesser Arts: William Morris's Critique on Modernity
Aesthetic Sensuous Community in the Lesser Arts: William Morris's Critique on Modernity
Department of English,College of Foreign Languages, Qufu Normal University,Qufu 273165,China
Vol. 8, Issue 2, Pages: 51-59(2024)
Published：11 December 2024
DOI：10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470206.20240802
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Ying Lin.Aesthetic Sensuous Community in the Lesser Arts: William Morris's Critique on Modernity[J].Critical Theory,2024,08(02):51-59. DOI： 10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470206.20240802.

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William Morris criticized the aesthetic ugliness of the Victorian era

which is essentially an artist's way of critiquing capitalist modernity. He diagnosed Victorian society with a symptom of "the famine of art"

and viewed it as an aesthetic representation of capitalist crisis. He thus elevated "the lesser arts" to stir a redistribution of the collective sensibilities within the community. This approach encouraged artists to return to craftsmanship and create art for the people. Such "aesthetic practice of everyday life

" condensed in handicrafts

to some extent reconstructed the sensuous world of individuals and the collective

highlighting the theoretical foundation of Marxist philosophy of praxis. In this sense

everyone is an artist; this is both a way to realize the aesthetic sensuous community and to manifest Morris's socialist ideals.

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