Une expo signalée au musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, "La Piscine" à ROUBAIX, consacrée jusqu'au 8 janvier (faut faire fissa) à WILLIAM MORRIS, peintre, sculpteur, décorateur, designer et écrivain anglais, considéré comme le fondateur (ou l'un des fondateurs) de la Fantasy et qui inspira notablement Tolkien, grand lecteur de Morris durant sa jeunesse, dans certains écrits mais aussi dans quelques illustrations.. On peut aisément imaginer que Tolkien ait lu la traduction par Morris de Beowulf ou celle de la Völsung Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with Certain Songs from the Elder Edda . Tolkien possédait aussi un exemplaire de l'ouvrage de Morris "Some Hints on Pattern Designing (1899)".
https://www.roubaix-lapiscine.com/exposi...dans-tout/
L'expo est surtout axée sur les talents de Morris comme illustrateur, designer et décorateur.
Le guide de l'expo peut se télécharger ici
Le catalogue est là
Voir aussi, entre autres, ceci ... ou bien cela sur le site de la BnF.
Selon Wikipedia :"Early fantasy writers like Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and James Branch Cabell were familiar with Morris's romances. The Wood Beyond the World is considered to have heavily influenced C. S. Lewis's Narnia series, while J. R. R. Tolkien was inspired by Morris's reconstructions of early Germanic life in The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains. The young Tolkien attempted a retelling of the story of Kullervo from the Kalevala in the style of The House of the Wolfings; Tolkien considered much of his literary work to have been inspired by an early reading of Morris, even suggesting that he was unable to better Morris's work; the names of characters such as "Gandolf" and the horse Silverfax appear in The Well at the World's End".
Pour mémoire, Tolkien mentionne Morris dans les Letters :
- n° 1 (to Edith Bratt), "Amongst other work I am trying to turn one of the stories — which is really a very great story and most tragic – into a short story somewhat on the lines of Morris' romances with chunks of poetry in between."
- n° 236 (From a letter to Professor L. W. Forster 31 December 1960), "... The Dead Marshes and the approaches to the Morannon owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the Mountains."
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ps : en complément, une critique assez rugueuse de cette expo dans La Tribune de l'Art (article réservé aux abonnés).
https://www.roubaix-lapiscine.com/exposi...dans-tout/
L'expo est surtout axée sur les talents de Morris comme illustrateur, designer et décorateur.
Le guide de l'expo peut se télécharger ici
Le catalogue est là
Voir aussi, entre autres, ceci ... ou bien cela sur le site de la BnF.
Selon Wikipedia :"Early fantasy writers like Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and James Branch Cabell were familiar with Morris's romances. The Wood Beyond the World is considered to have heavily influenced C. S. Lewis's Narnia series, while J. R. R. Tolkien was inspired by Morris's reconstructions of early Germanic life in The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains. The young Tolkien attempted a retelling of the story of Kullervo from the Kalevala in the style of The House of the Wolfings; Tolkien considered much of his literary work to have been inspired by an early reading of Morris, even suggesting that he was unable to better Morris's work; the names of characters such as "Gandolf" and the horse Silverfax appear in The Well at the World's End".
Pour mémoire, Tolkien mentionne Morris dans les Letters :
- n° 1 (to Edith Bratt), "Amongst other work I am trying to turn one of the stories — which is really a very great story and most tragic – into a short story somewhat on the lines of Morris' romances with chunks of poetry in between."
- n° 236 (From a letter to Professor L. W. Forster 31 December 1960), "... The Dead Marshes and the approaches to the Morannon owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the Mountains."
S.
ps : en complément, une critique assez rugueuse de cette expo dans La Tribune de l'Art (article réservé aux abonnés).