The Works of John Ruskin
The Works of John Ruskin
Edward Tyas Cook
Alexander Wedderburn
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GBPThe influence of John Ruskin (1819–1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. The thirty-nine volumes of the Library Edition of his works, published between 1903 and 1912, are themselves a remarkable achievement, in which his books and essays - almost all highly illustrated - are given a biographical and critical context in extended introductory essays and in the 'Minor Ruskiniana' - extracts from letters, articles and reminiscences both by and about Ruskin. This sixth volume contains Volume 4 of Modern Painters.
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February 2010Paperback
9781108008549
600 pages
230 × 155 × 35 mm
0.93kg
168 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Bibliographical note
- Modern painters, Vol. IV: Preface
- Part V. 'Of mountain beauty':
- 1. Of the Turnerian picturesque
- 2. Of Turnerian topography
- 3. Of Turnerian light
- 4. Of Turnerian mystery: as essential
- 5. Of Turnerian mystery: wilful
- 6. The firmament
- 7. The dry land
- 8. Of the materials of mountains: compact crystallines
- 9. Of the materials of mountains: slaty crystallines
- 10. Of the materials of mountains: slaty coherents
- 11. Of the materials of mountains: compact coherents
- 12. Of the sculpture of mountains: the lateral ranges
- 13. Of the scupture of mountains: the central peaks
- 14. Resulting forms: aiguilles
- 15. Resulting forms: crests
- 16. Resulting forms: precipices
- 17. Resulting forms: banks
- 18. Resulting forms: stones
- 19. The mountain gloom
- 20. The mountain glory
- Appendix.
