Thomas More’s Utopia

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CONTENTS
01 Sir Thomas More

02 About Utopia

03 Defining Art

04 Influences of Utopia on Art

 SIR THOMAS
MORE
(1478 – 1535)

(Bl.uk, n.d.)
SIR THOMAS
MORE
(1478 – 1535)
 Sir Thomas More: Works
1534 1543 1516 1529 1523

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"It is a general rule that the more different anything
is from what people are used to, the harder it is to
accept." –Thomas More, Utopia

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Christine de Pizan, in a 15th-century painting representing her Plato's Republic was on of the first works to
book, The City of Ladies, published in 1405 which imagined utopia imagine an ideal state with philosopher-
as a female-only city. kings on the top of the society

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Utopian Alphabets
“I can perceave nothing but a certein
conspiracy if rich men procuring their own
commodities under the name and title of
commonwealth,” More writes.
Wealth
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Education
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Moral Philosophy
Work
About Utopia
o U-TOPAS : ‘No place’
o Based on the unjust society of
England
o Community of possessions
o Republican system
o Money & gold have no value
o Enjoy reading, learning about
philosophy and liberal arts
o Work six hours a day
o A pacifist society
“They live in perfect liberty,
and have neither king nor
lord. They observe no laws” –
What is your ideal society;
Utopia?
 Defining
Art
THEATRE
ARCHITECTURE MUSIC
DRAWING LITERATURE MOSAIC

PAINTING FURNITURE PHOTOGRAPHY

DESIGN DANCE
SCULPTURE
ENAMELWORK
MODELLING
(Encyclopedia Britannica, 2018)
 Literature: Books
1619 1627
Theologian Johann Portrays a world in which
Valentin Andrea’s the core of progress in an
imagining of the walled Enlighted state is scientific
utopian city experiment.
Christianopolis

1623 1726
Jonathan Swift writes about a
Written by Thomas journey made to a series of
Campanella, an Italian good and bad utopias. The book
writer and Dominican protests against the modern
friar, talks about a worlds injustice railing : “The
society run by a rich man enjoyed the Fruit of
beneficent elite. the poor Man’s Labour,”

(the Guardian, 2004) (Hodgkinson, 2016)

 Other Notable Works
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News from Ecotopia by Island by

Nowhere by Ernest Aldous
William Morris Callenbach Huxley

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Erewhon by The Dispossessed by

Samuel Butler Ursula Le Guin

(the Guardian, 2004)

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 MUSIC
01 Chained to the Rhythm by Katy Perry

Aren't you lonely

Up there in utopia
Where nothing will ever be enough?
Happily numb
So comfortable, we're livin' in a bubble,
(Tyler, 2017)
bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the
02 Utopia
trouble, by.Austra
trouble
I can picture a place
Where everybody feels it too
It might be fiction but I see it
ahead
There's nothing I wouldn't do
(Graham, 2017)There's nothing I wouldn't do
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Palmanova,
Italy

(Kim, 2017)
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Palmanova, Arcosanti,
Italy Arizona

(Kim, 2017)
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Palmanova, Arcosanti,
Italy Arizona

Auroville,
India

(Kim, 2017)
 Architecture

Palmanova, Arcosanti,
Italy Arizona

Auroville, Drop City,

India Colorado

(Kim, 2017)
 Architecture

Palmanova, Arcosanti,
Italy Arizona

Auroville, Drop City,

India Colorado

(Kim, 2017)
Paintings and Modern Photography
The Land of Cockaygne by Pieter Brueghel

“You see how it is – wherever you are, you always have to work.
There’s never any excuse for idleness……so you’re practically
forced to get on with your job, and make proper use of your
spare time” – Thomas More
 Paintings and Modern Photography

The Land of Cockaygne by Pieter Brueghel

"Light" by Wolfgang Tillmans-- Everyday Utopias

 Paintings and Modern Photography
"Utopia/Dystopia" installation view by Bruno
Lopes-- Utopia/Dystopia as Poetry

The Land of Cockaygne by Pieter Brueghel "Light" by Wolfgang Tillmans-- Everyday Utopias
 Paintings and Modern Photography
"Sleep Mode" by Dis Collective-- Utopia as
Image

The Land of Cockaygne by Pieter Brueghel "Light" by Wolfgang Tillmans-- Everyday Utopias

"Utopia/Dystopia" installation view by Bruno

Lopes-- Utopia/Dystopia as Poetry
 Paintings and Modern Photography
(Hodgkinson, 2016)

The Land of Cockaygne by Pieter Brueghel "Light" by Wolfgang Tillmans-- Everyday Utopias

"Utopia/Dystopia" installation view by Bruno "Sleep Mode" by Dis Collective-- Utopia as

Lopes-- Utopia/Dystopia as Poetry Image
(May, 2017)
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