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Free Trade gallery still

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Free Trade 2003

Contents CD cover

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Screen Tests -man

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Professor, Manchester School of Art 1935
Screen Tests 2006

Reprise

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This is the full text of the lecture, without annotations

REPRISE

A project by Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska
on the occasion of Independence an exhibition at the South London Gallery
1st June â€“ 3rd August 2003

Souvenir Pamphlet

Price 20p
A SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH LONDON ART GALLERY, LIBRARY AND LECTURE HALL
-From its Foundation in 1868-

Addressed to the council of the South London Fine Art Gallery January 4th 1893

The Institution now being a quarter of a century old, and Mr Westlake and myself being the only members familiar with this history as a whole, it seemed worthwhile to recount a summary of its history, especially as many people still think it is supported by ratepayers through the County Council.

Art Wealth and Riches

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Art, Wealth and Riches

By William Morris

A lecture by writer and critic William Morris, was first delivered at a joint conversazione of Manchester Societies at the Royal Institution, Manchester 6th March 1883.This version was redelivered by actor Steve Whitehouse, on the 10th November 2003 as part of Free Trade and is reprinted in the catalogue.

Art, Wealth, and Riches are the words I have written at the head of this paper. Some of you may think that the two latter words, wealth and riches, are tautologous; but I cannot admit it. In truth these are no real synonyms in any language, I mean unless in the case of words borrowed from another tongue; and in the early days of our own language no one would have thought of using the word rich as a synonym for wealthy. He would have understood a wealthy man to mean one who had plentiful livelihood, and a rich man one who had great dominion over his fellow-men. Alexander the Rich, Canute the Rich, Alfred the Rich; these are familiar words enough in the early literature of the North; the adjective would scarcely be used except of a great king or chief, a man pre-eminent above other kings and chiefs. Now, without being a stickler for etymological accuracy, I must say that I think there are cases where modern languages have lost power by confusing two words into one meaning, and that this is one of them. I shall ask your leave therefore to use the words wealth and riches somewhat in the way in which our forefathers did, and to understand wealth as signifying the means of living a decent life, and riches the means for exercising dominion over other people. Thus understood the words are widely different to my mind; yet, indeed, if you say that the difference is but one of degree I must needs admit it; just so it is between the shepherdâ€™s dog and the wolf. Their respective views on the subject of mutton differ only in degree.